Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
>> It's a shame that
>>
>> 1) there's no equivalent of "java -jar", i.e., "python -z
>> FILE.ZIP", and
>
> This should work on a few platforms:
> env PYTHONPATH=FILE.zip python -m some_module_in_the_zip
Really? I wrote the '-m' code, and I wouldn't expect that to work anywhere
because 'execfile' and the C equivalent that -m relies on expect a real file.
PEP 328 goes some way towards fixing that by having a Python fallback to find
and execute the module if the current C code fails. If we had execmodule as a
Python function, it would make it much easier to add support for
compiling and executing the target module directly, rather than indirecting
through the file-system-dependent execfile. In theory this could be done in C,
but execmodule is fairly long even written in Python. I'm actually fairly sure
it *could* be written in C, but I think doing so would be horribly tedious
(and not as useful in the long run).
Cheers,
Nick.
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