Adam Atlas wrote:
I think it would be useful for Python to accept imports of standalone files representing entire packages, maybe with the extension .pyp. A package file would basically be a ZIP file, so it would follow fairly easily from the current zipimport mechanism... its top-level directory would be the contents of a package named by the outer ZIP file. In other words, suppose we have a ZIP file called "package.pyp", and at its top level, it contains "__init__.py" and "blah.py". Anywhere this can be located, it would be equivalent to a physical directory called "package" containing those two files. So you can simply do "import package" as usual, regardless of whether it's a directory or a .pyp.
What are the benefits of your proposal over the already established Python eggs? As far as I understand your proposal it's not much different to eggs. In fact eggs + setuptools support more features like dependencies, multiversion installation and many more. Christian