If I have a package installed as a zip file egg and ask for its __file__ I
might get a reference which looks like a normal file system path but isn't:
% python
Python 2.4.5 (#4, Apr 12 2008, 09:09:16)
[GCC 3.4.1] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import magnitude
>>> magnitude.__file__
'/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/magnitude-0.9.3-py2.4.egg/magnitude.pyc'
>>> magnitude.__file__[:-1]
'/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/magnitude-0.9.3-py2.4.egg/magnitude.py'
>>> import os
>>> os.path.exists(magnitude.__file__[:-1])
False
How do I actually lay my hands on the .py file source for the magnitude
module in this case? Do I have to recognize somehow that
.../magnitude-0.9.3-py2.4.egg is a zip archive and resort to extracting the
Python source with the zipfile module?
Thx,
Skip Montanaro
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