[Distutils] Extracting C extensions from zipfiles on sys.path (Was: wheels on sys.path clarification (reboot))

[Vinay Sajip]

On Fri, 31/1/14, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

> This limitation does no longer exist; it works in 2.x and 3.x as
> well as on 32-bit and 64-bit.
 
That's good to know. Of course, as it's platform specific, it can't
be used as a generic C extension import facility, though I suppose
that if/when such a capability becomes available on mainstream
platforms, the memimporter API could be adapted to cover it.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip