[Python-Dev] PEP 273: Import Modules from Zip Archives

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Since obviously the intention of putting the module in the zipfile was
> that it should be found, I think that failure to decompress should be
> turned into an immediate error -- the same way as a syntax error gets
> reported and not turned into a "skip to the next directory in
> sys.path" effect.

Hmmm, I'm not sure.  But it is easy to do.
 
> > I can upload it for inspection, but I don't want it to be a patch
> > because it is not done yet.
> 
> Just say so in the patch.  You can upoad anything you want. :-)

OK, I will post the implementation.

JimA