Oct. 29, 2001
3:58 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Since obviously the intention of putting the module in the zipfile was that it should be found, I think that failure to decompress should be turned into an immediate error -- the same way as a syntax error gets reported and not turned into a "skip to the next directory in sys.path" effect.
Hmmm, I'm not sure. But it is easy to do.
I can upload it for inspection, but I don't want it to be a patch because it is not done yet.
Just say so in the patch. You can upoad anything you want. :-)
OK, I will post the implementation. JimA