[Distutils] wheels on sys.path clarification (reboot)

[Donald Stufft]

On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 January 2014 15:03, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> For those following along at home who have no interest in supporting zipped
>> Wheels who want to disclaim support for it, here's how you do zip_safe=False
>> for Wheels: https://gist.github.com/dstufft/8710270.
> 
> Note that this will also prevent use in py2exe, cx_Freeze and any
> similar bundling technologies. Presumably that's what you want, as any
> issues are identical, but it's worth being clear.
> 
> Paul

Sure, using a library via zip import when it wasn’t designed to be used as such
is an anti pattern.

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