On approximately 2/2/2010 4:28 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Guido van Rossum:
Argh. zipfiles are way to complex to be writing.

Agreed. But in reading that, it somehow triggered a question: does zipimport only work for zipfiles, or does it work for any archive format that Python stdlib knows how to decode? And if only the former, why are they so special?

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Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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