I could use a refresher on how PJE's patch solves Andy's problem.

On 9/11/07, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The local patch I have for PEP 366 is somewhat stale, and before I bring
> it up to date with SVN head, I'd like to close out the issue raised a
> while back regarding making zip files executable [1].
>
> The original proposal was for a new command line switch, but PJE came up
> with a patch (attached to the roundup tracker item) that uses the
> existing import machinery to avoid the need for the extra command line
> switch (by checking if the argument is a valid sys.path entry before
> checking to see if it is an executable script).
>
> I personally like the idea (and PJE's approach), and the performance
> impact on script startup time appears to be negligible (although I
> haven't performed any high precision measurements - I'm just using the
> Linux time utility on a short test script with and without the patch).
>
> Are there any objections to my committing this?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue1739468
>
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