[Import-SIG] making it feasible to rely on loaders for reading intra-package data files

[Brett Cannon]

On Feb 1, 2014 3:15 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1 February 2014 19:36, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > Not quite sure what you are suggesting as an in-memory zipfile vs. one
that
> > isn't. Any zipfile on sys.path has to be in-memory to read from to do a
load
> > so I don't know where you are drawing the distinction.
>
> Normally you put a filesystem path to the zipfile onto sys.path. If I
> load the zipfile via get_data() it's not got a filesystem path, I have
> the raw zip data in memory. To import from it I have to write that
> data to a file and put the filename onto sys.path.

Yes, if you wanted to try to import from a zip file from within your
package (which pex stopped doing for sanity reasons) then yes, you are on
your own =)
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