[JimA] > I am confused. Zip archives are equivalant to subdirectories, so there > is no requirement to have anything at the top level. Your example seems > to imply a second search path besides sys.path. [GvR] >I think Finn simply means that the zipfile may have some redundant >initial suffix to all filenames (e.g. "Lib/") ... Yes, that was it! regards, finn