On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:19 PM, zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. The standard Python library includes a tool to find and read > resources (other than Python modules) that came bundled in a Python > package. > > Consider, for example, this snippets of code in Nevow: > > http://divmod.org/trac/browser/trunk/Nevow/setup.py?rev=13786#L10 > http://divmod.org/trac/browser/trunk/Nevow/setup.py?rev=13786 > http://divmod.org/trac/browser/trunk/Nevow/setup_egg.py?rev=2406 > > When Nevow uses pkg_resources to import its files such as > "default.css", then it is able to find at runtime, even if is being > imported from a py2exe or py2app zip, or on other platforms where its > homegrown setup script and homegrown "find my file" function fail. > So using pkg_resources (and setuptools to install it) makes > "test_nevow" pass on all of the allmydata.org buildslaves: > > http://allmydata.org/buildbot/waterfall?show_events=false
I think we're pretty close to this already. PEP 302 defines a getdata() method. Hopefully most PEP 302 implementations support it. The only thing missing IMO is a little function that does what getdata() does when there is no __loader__ object (i.e. when the default "import-from-filesystem" import method is used). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
