On 11/10/05, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > On 11/9/05, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Thomas Heller wrote: > >> > >>> Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> > >>>> On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> It's a shame that > >>>>> > >>>>> 1) there's no equivalent of "java -jar", i.e., "python -z > >>>>> FILE.ZIP", and > >>>> This should work on a few platforms: > >>>> env PYTHONPATH=FILE.zip python -m some_module_in_the_zip > >>> It should, yes - but it doesn't: -m doesn't work with zipimport. > >> That's dumb, someone should fix that. Is there a bug filed? > > > > I did, a while ago. http://www.python.org/sf/1250389 > > Please consider looking at and commenting on PEP 328 - I got zero feedback > when I wrote it, and basically assumed no-one else was bothered by the -m > switch's fairly significant limitations (it went in close to the first Python > 2.4 alpha release, so we wanted to keep it simple). > > The PEP and the associated patch currently only cover lifting the limitation > against executing modules inside packages, but it should be possible to extend > it to cover executing modules inside zip files as well (as you say, increasing > use of eggs will only make the current limitations more annoying). > > That discussion should probably happen on c.l.p, though. cc' me if you start > one, and I can keep on eye on it through Google (I won't have time to > participate actively, unfortunately :()
I didn't respond simply because it seemed obvious that this should go in, and I expected no debate. I assumed the only reason it didn't go into 2.4 was because the issue came up too close to the release. Teach me to assume, I guess... FWIW, I'm +1 on PEP 338. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com