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

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:07:35 +0100


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> - 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.

Why? If I write a package which is mostly in Python, it feels very natural to
put the C extensions also in the package.

Just