[Python-Dev] Another approach for the import mechanism

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> 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

That would kill the __init__.py that could be inside package.zip,
right? One could leave package.zip's __init__.py outside it, and
hack it as shown above, but it'd be great if this scheme was just
an option for setup.py (--compress-packages). Otherwise the scheme
must be prepared by the developer, not by the packager.

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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