[Distutils] zip imports ftw

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to take this moment to note how awesome importing from
> zipfile is. Did you know you can execute a zip file with Python, and
> if it has a __main__.py in the root it will be executed, with the
> zipfile's contents on the PYTHONPATH?

I've known this, but can you say a little about the caveats (e.g. why
you wouldn't always want to store your packages as zip files)?  For
example, IIRC you can't really use __file__ from within such modules.

--Chris