Dec. 5, 2002
5:05 p.m.
Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com> writes:
It's unacceptable. Zip files MUST be allowed in PYTHONPATH, and they
Why? Have you promised that to someone? :-))
Sure. See PEP 273. Also, it is so similar to the Java CLASSPATH feature that it better be identical.
MUST be considered in order with all other items in PYTHONPATH; the order requirement also applies for sys.path.
I told that would be onored (perhaps in an uncomprehensible way).
If so, it was indeed incomprehensible :-( Rereading your proposal, it appears that you are also proposing that you can only package up entire Python packages with your strategy. It also is a requirement that you can zip up the Pythons standard library. Regards, Martin