Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Some libraries (not necessarily in Python) have gone the path of > providing a "unified" API for all kinds of file stream access, > e.g. in KDE, any tool can open files over many protocols, without > the storage being mounted locally.
Maybe a compromise would be to provide an extended version of open() that knew about zip files. This could be a stand-alone facility to complement zip importing, and needn't be tied to distutils or setuptools or anything like that. Code which finds things using module __file__ attributes would work exactly the way it does now as long as it used the special open(). -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
