On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:00 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:20:10 +0000 > Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > I vaguely remember people suggesting writing the minimal zip reading code > > in C but I can't remember why since we have I/O access in importlib > through > > _io and thus it's really just the pulling apart of the zip file to get at > > the files to import and thus should be doable in pure Python. > > You would need other modules, such as struct and zlib, right? > zlib yes, but that's already a C extension so that could get compiled in as a built-in module if necessary. As for struct, it might be nice but it doesn't provide any functionality that couldn't be reproduced manually.
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