Dec. 6, 2012
3:58 p.m.
Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes:
The wheel implementation makes sure all the metadata (the .dist-info directory) is at the end of the .zip archive. It's possible to read the metadata with a single HTTP partial request for the end of the archive without downloading the entire archive.
Sounds good, but can you point to any example code which does this? As I understand it, for .zip files you have to read the last part of the file to get a pointer to the directory, then read that to find where each file in the archive is, then seek to a specific position to read the file contents. Regards, Vinay Sajip