On 28.07.16 19:30, Xavier de Gaye wrote:
Issue 26852 [1] proposes an enhancement to reduce the size of the Python installation by using a sourceless distribution. It seems that discussion on this problem (the size of the Python installation on mobile devices) should be moved here.
IMHO there is no need to debate on the fact that a full install of Python on a mobile device today is a problem.
As a reference, here is a raw estimation of the sizes of the different installs:
full install: 111M without the test suite: 53M without the test suite and as a sourceless distribution: 23M same as above but also without ensurepip: 14M
It would be useful to find the references to the previous discussions related to sourceless distributions, especially the reasons why their use is discouraged.
Try to pack the stdlib in the ZIP file and use zipimport.