On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:49:24 -0800 Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> wrote: > Also, depending on what else you > want to put in the zipfile, you may have to be aware of zipimports limited > implementation of zipfiles that involve various 32k-filecount and > 2Gb-filesize limits. (And in case you're wondering, yes, we are doing this > with Python 2.7 at Google to save space. And yes, hitting the 2Gb limit is > quite possible for us.)
Have you investigated filesystems with built-in compression? :) > Also, at that point the question becomes if we need a > transparent interface for opening module sourcefiles or arbitrary files > living in packages, that could grab things out of zipfiles (like setuptools > has in... one of the modules) -- or other archives of course. You mean pkg_resources I suppose. The problem is this kind of API is a PITA to use compared to the simple and obvious open(<some formula involving __file__>) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
