On 9/19/2018 9:25 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Sep 19, 2018, at 20:34, Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> wrote:
There's ongoing work to rewrite zipimport.c in python using zipfile itself
Great timing! Serhiy’s rewrite of zipimport in Python has just landed in 3.8,
although it doesn’t use zipfile. What’s in git now is a pretty straightforward
translation from the original C, so it could use some clean ups (and I think
Serhiy is planning that). So the problem you describe should be easier to fix
now in 3.8. It would be interesting to see if we can squeeze more performance
and better behavior out of it now that it’s in Python.
You don't hear "better performance" and "now that it's in Python"
together very often! Although I agree with your point: it's like how we
tried and failed to make progress on namespace packages when import was
written in C, and then once it was in Python it was easy to add the
functionality.
Eric
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