Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > > > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga > wrote: > > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained > > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want t

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Thanks. I think I can live with that restriction. :-) I do not read/write to the same zip file in the same process. Anthony On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Anthony Tuininga < > anthony.tuini...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 5, 20

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has remained > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > > Please advise! Thanks. > > I believe this is a

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: >> > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has >> remained >> > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't w

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > > Please advise! Thanks. > > I believe

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has remained > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > Please advise! Thanks. I believe this is a 100% supported feature of Python (since 2.6, as you men

[Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Hi, I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from Python scripts. To this point I have been using frozen modules (compiled C) but this has the side effect of bundling parts of Python with a cx_Freeze release -- and this has bitten me on a number of occasions when newer versi

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.1rc1

2014-05-05 Thread Larry Hastings
On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.4 release team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Python 3.4.1rc1. Python 3.4.1rc1 has over three hundred bugfixes and other improvements over 3.4.0. One notable change: the version of OpenSSL bundled with the Windows