From: "Gustavo Niemeyer" <niemeyer@conectiva.com> > - Allows me to ship a package inside a zip file, without asking > the user to change his path. > btw for single packages (once you can put zipfiles in sys.path or __path__) you can achieve this with __path__ package/ __init__.py __path__[0] = os.path.join(__path__[0],'package.zip') package.zip regards.