[Python-Dev] PEP 273 - Import from Zip Archives

[Jeremy on python-checkins list, PEP 283: Python 2.3 release schedule]

Planned features for 2.3 Here are a few PEPs that I know to be under consideration. [...] S 273 Import Modules from Zip Archives Ahlstrom

I haven't participated in the discussion of PEP 273, IIRC it was mostly about implementation details... Wouldn't it be the right time now, instead of complicating the builtin import mechanism further, to simplify the builtin import code, and use it as the foundation of a Python coded implementation - imputil, or better Gordon's iu.py, or whatever? Thomas