On Oct 02, 2012, at 06:44 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: >Okay. Naturally there is already support for absolute paths in the file >system for resources which are in the file system, so the question was really >for resources in zips. Is it expected that the scenario will be quite common >to get a .so or similar out of a package in a .zip into a cache, so that the >name in the cache can be passed to dlopen()? Do you know of any specific PyPI >distributions which do that, so I can look at them for testing etc?
This is kind of missing the point. You want to be able to write code against a single API and not care whether the file you need is already unpacked or in a zip. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
