[Distutils] PEP: Improving Python ZIP Application Support

[Antoine Pitrou]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Not true, it's covered in the command line docs at http://docs.python.
> org/2/using/cmdline.html#interface-options
> 
> It's just that people generally assume they know how our CLI works,
> so they never read that.

Well, people won't open a Web browser to read a CLI's documentation when
they can simply type "python --help".

$ ./python --help
usage: ./python [option] ... [-c cmd | -m mod | file | -] [arg] ...
[...]
file   : program read from script file
-      : program read from stdin (default; interactive mode if a tty)

There's nothing about a zip file here ;-)

And even the much more comprehensive man page doesn't mention it either:

$ grep -i zip Misc/python.man 
$ 

Regards

Antoine.