Re: [Python-Dev] Another approach for the import mechanism

Skip> Remember, a zip file looks like a directory because of its Skip> embedded structure. If you had httplib.zip it would have to Skip> contain at least one .py or .so (or .pyd or ...) file. I think Skip> you would insert /some/dir/httplib.zip into sys.path. Just rereading my own note, I realize you might have components after the zip file name. Suppose you had web.zip which contained directories http, gopher, ftp, and nntp, each of which was itself a package (had a __init__.py file). You might modify sys.path like so: newdirs = [os.path.join("/some/dir/web.zip", x) for x in "http gopher ftp nttp".split()] sys.path.extend(newdirs) Skip