[Python-Dev] zipimport, round 3 (or would that be that 37?)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:04:16 +0100


Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> emulating a file system when you already have a file system seems a
> bit like overkill...

True, but zipimport (just like the PEP 273 implementation) *does* handle any of
.py, .pyc and .pyo. It prefers byte code over source, but ignores the time
stamp. That *could* be confusing.

Just