Of course the major potentially non obvious caveats are that a lot of python code doesn't use the API to load data from the importer path, instead using __file__ and assuming everything is one, and that sometimes (shared libraries) the system can't load it unless its a real file.
Daniel Holth On Sep 15, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'd like to take this moment to note how awesome importing from >> zipfile is. Did you know you can execute a zip file with Python, and >> if it has a __main__.py in the root it will be executed, with the >> zipfile's contents on the PYTHONPATH? > > I've known this, but can you say a little about the caveats (e.g. why > you wouldn't always want to store your packages as zip files)? For > example, IIRC you can't really use __file__ from within such modules. > > --Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
