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

[Paul Moore]

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On 2 February 2014 13:50, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 February 2014 18:44, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> Over on distutils-sig it came up that getting people to not simply assume
>> that __file__ points to an actual file and thus avoid using open() directly
>> to read intra-package files is an issue. In order to make using a loader's
>> get_data reasonable (let alone set_data), there needs to be a clear
>> specification of how things are expected to work and make sure that
>> everything that people need is available.
>
> An alternative suggestion - now that Python 3.4 has pathlib, how
> practical would it be to create a ZipFilePath subclass that acted as a
> concrete path for files in a zipfile? Getting people to use pathlib
> for dealing with __file__ rather than the old os.path functions might
> be an easier sell, and if pathlib handled zipfiles "behind the scenes"
> we could avoid the whole issue.
>
> Paul.