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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 Feb 2014 00:05, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> BTW, I keep geting moderated on this list. I just checked and I seem
> to be subscribed. Is there a problem somewhere? Or have I been blocked
> for some reason?

Maybe someone tried to make you a moderator and set your moderation flag
instead?

We accidentally did that to Victor on the core mentorship list :P

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> 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.
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