[Distutils] Easy install and zipimporter
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Nov 10 23:44:39 CET 2007
At 09:47 PM 11/10/2007 +0100, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've been implementing zipimport module recently for the pypy
>project and I came to the following problem:
>
>When zipimport is there, easy install is mangling with
>zipimport._zip_directory_cache, which is
>a) undocumented in importer protocol
>b) starts with an _
>c) explodes when I compile pypy and import site.py (providing that
>I've got easy_install installed)
>
>Any propositions what to do here? Just providing
>_zip_directory_cache is not really an option, since it has no documentation
>>> import zipimport
>>> help(zipimport)
Help on built-in module zipimport:
NAME
zipimport - zipimport provides support for importing Python
modules from Zip archives.
FILE
(built-in)
MODULE DOCS
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-zipimport.html
DESCRIPTION
This module exports three objects:
- zipimporter: a class; its constructor takes a path to a Zip archive.
- ZipImporterError: exception raised by zipimporter objects. It's a
subclass of ImportError, so it can be caught as ImportError, too.
- _zip_directory_cache: a dict, mapping archive paths to zip directory
info dicts, as used in zipimporter._files.
>and no unittests,
Well, the tests in test_zipimport *clear* it.
>which means it might change at any moment.
Why? Note, by the way, that as of Python 2.5, the pkgutil module
also makes use of this variable.
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