> > Of course it's not really a mystery; a tremendous number of Apis only accept > a file name. That's why it's there. And only something well connected to > the importer system knows how and whether the extraction is needed. >
Why is that the case? If the bytes are available, then whoever needs can write them to a temp file, pass that name, and clean up afterwards. Is managing a cache of arbitrary files extracted from zips is a mainstream use case which distlib needs to support? Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
