At 03:52 PM 7/12/2007 -0700, Andy C wrote: >So does everyone agree that there should be a new extension called >.pyz? And that the definition of this is a .zip file with a >__zipmain__.py module at its root? If so, I can make the change... I >haven't looked around the codebase yet but it sounds easy enough.
I'm not a Windows user, so don't have a good feel for the state of the extension mess on that platform these days. PYZ isn't listed on filext.com, but I don't know if that means much. On Thursday 12 July 2007, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Let's use __main__, please. Fewer names to remember, and __main__ is > supposed to be the __name__ of the main program. It Just Makes Sense<TM>. Indeed. Let's not do something so specific it's a pain to use. Andy C: >* Does anyone else want to change the -z flag to make more sense for >directories (and possibly change __zipmain__.py to __main__.py)? In >thinking about this again, I am not sure I can come up with a real use >case. Yes. A use case for using directories, or for *not* supporting them? These cases should be as similar as possible; like Phillip suggested, we should be thinking "sys.path entry" rather than "zip file". Phillip Eby: > Testing your package before you zip it, would be one. :) My > personal main interest was in being able to add an item to sys.path > without having to set $PYTHONPATH on Windows. That's why I'd like it > to be possible to use -z more than once (or whatever the option ends up > as). What happens if multiple entries contain __main__.py entries? I don't like this one so much. I don't know what Java does if you specify -jar more than once; that might suggest something. > The only competing proposal besides what > I've suggested was the one to add an option to "runpy", and IMO > that's dead in the water due to shebang argument limits. Agreed. Andy: >* Magically looking at the first argument to see if it's a zip file >seems problematic to me. I'd rather be explicit with the -z flag. >Likewise, I'd rather be explicit and call it __zipmain__ rather than >__main__. Identifying ZIP files is straightforward; there's nothing weird about this one. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
