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

[Guido van Rossum]

- Writing stuff back to .zip files is totally the wrong approach.

- I don't care about having .so files inside packages *in zipfiles*.

- I'm not sure I care about having .so files inside packages on the
  filesystem; they are useful in Zope, but for very hackish reasons.

- If the zip file has the .py file but no .pyc or the wrong .pyc, tant
  pis.  Let it be slower.  (But if it has the .pyo, use that.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)