On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if it would make sense to start installing the Python > standard library as a .zip file by default. Some benefits would be > a tidier and more compact install and slightly faster startup times. > One downside is that it becomes more difficult to look at the source > of modules. That's an important feature of Python, especially for > people learning the language. > > I think that downside could be mitigated by adding an option to > pydoc that shows the source of a module. For example, "pydoc -s > bisect" could show the source for the bisect module. >
Or zipimport grows the ability to store source and supplies the get_source() method as specified in PEP 302. Then pydoc can just use the loader to get at the source. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
