[Python-Dev] zipimport.c broken with implicit namespace packages (original) (raw)

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Jan 3 05:43:48 EST 2016

On 3 Jan 2016, at 3:41 am, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:26 PM, <mike.romberg at comcast.net> wrote: -- >>>>> "Brett" == Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> writes: > I opened > https://bugs.python.org/issue25711 to specifically try to > fix this issue once and for all and along the way modernize > zipimport by rewriting it from scratch to be more > maintainable Every time I read about impementing a custom loader: https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html I've wondered why python does not have some sort of virtual filesystem layer to deal with locating modules/packages/support files. Virtual file systems seem like a good way to store data on a wide range of storage devices. Yeah, but most devices already implement a real filesystem, so the only time the VFS would come in handy would be for zipfiles, where we already have a solution.

Just to point out that it would be nice to have an easier way to use something other that zipfiles. I have a need to exploit a different solution and have to patch the bootstrap code (because the zipfile support is handled as a special case). BTW the need is to create iOS and Android executables from frozen Python code.

Phil

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