On 29 Mar, 2013, at 21:11, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
WinZip will ignore anything in the front of the file since the zip directory doesn't reference it. The #! shebang is for Unix, would point to the correct Python, and the +x flag would make it executable. The mini PEP is for the .pyz registration and for publicity.
The two big reasons almost nobody knows about the executable zip files and directories is we forgot to mention it in the original 2.6 What's New (it's there now, but was added much later), and it was done in a tracker issue [1] (with Guido participating) rather than as a PEP.
A new PEP to:
* register the .pyz and .pyzw extensions in the 3.4 Windows installer
Also: * add support for .pyz and .pyzw support to Python Launcher on OSX
* ship a tool for creating an executable pyz or pyzw file from a directory of pure-Python files (warning if any extension files are noticed, and with the option of bytecode precompilation)
Ronald