> Agreed this should be discussed in the PEP, but one obvious problem is > the speed impact. Picking up a file from a subdirectory is going to > introduce less overhead than unpacking it from a zipfile.
There is also the issue of race conditions with multiple simultaneous accesses. The original format for the PEP had race conditions for multiple simultaneous writers; ZIP will also have race conditions for concurrent readers/writers (as any new writer will have to overwrite the central directory, making the zip file temporarily unavailable - unless they copy it, in which case we are back to writer/writer races). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
