Barry Warsaw <barry <at> python.org> writes: > >a third-party API which expects a filename) can handle that themselves, > >e.g. by saving the bytes to a temporary location and passing that to whatever > >needs a filename. > > Why not provide this by distlib?
Only because it doesn't add much value, and (if you do all that pkg_resources does) might mean that you have to maintain a cache. As a matter of interest, what are the APIs you're using which need filenames but can't use bytes or streams? Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
