On 08:44 pm, brett@python.org wrote:

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

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If the current system is setting __path__ to a string in frozen packages, I'd have to wonder how well any existing __path__ manipulation tools handle frozen packages without special-casing them.

I doubt anyone does. As Thomas asked, do people really even still use frozen modules?

Well, speaking of vaporware, I know that when Divmod is discussing proprietary Python software with potential clients, Freeze often comes up. We tend to discourage its actual use, but the *possibility* of jamming all the distributed Python modules into a shared library or executable and never loading them directly from the filesystem has been an important selling point of Python in the past. I do know that a few commercial games have shipped with a big pile of frozen Python inside them; I don't know when the most recent one was.