On 11/9/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/9/05, Osvaldo Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've noticed this inconsistency when we stop to use zipimport in our > > Python For Maemo distribution. We've decided to stop using zipimport > > because the device (Nokia 770) uses a compressed filesystem. > > I won't comment further on the brainstorm that's going on (this is > becoming a topic for c.l.py) but I think you are misunderstanding the > point of zipimport. It's not done (usually) for the compression but > for the index. Finding a name in the zipfile index is much more > efficient than doing a directory search; and the zip index can be > cached.
Any way, not loading .pyo if no .pyc or .py is available is a drawback, specially on unices that have scripts starting with "#!/usr/bin/python" or "#!/usr/bin/env python" and the system just have .pyo files, due a bunch of reasons, in this case the small disc space. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri -------------------------------------- Computer Engineer 2001 - UNICAMP Mobile: +55 (19) 9165 8010 Phone: +1 (347) 624 6296 @ sip.stanaphone.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 17249123 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0xB640E1A2 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
