[Python-Dev] Python 2.3a1 release -- Dec 31

[Samuele Pedroni]

>    zipimporter.c
>    - removed the subdir feature, which allowed the path to the
>    zip archive to be extended with a subdirectory. PEP 273
>    stated this was needed for package support (and only for
>    that). However, with the new import hooks this is no longer
>    true: a path item containing the plain zip archive path can
>    also deal with submodules (find_module receives the full
>    module name after all). Therefore a pkg.__path__ from a
>    package loaded from a zip archive will contain the *plain*
>    zip archive path.
>    - as a consequence I could simplify and clean up lots of
>    things (esp. zipimporter_init: eg. it no longer needs to
>    check sys.path_importer_cache; yay). Getting rid of the
>    zipimporter.prefix attribute altogether helped a lot in
>    other places.
>    - this change additionally enabled me to get rid of the
>    restriction that zip paths must end in .ZIP or .zip; any
>    extension (or even no extension) will now work.

will not this break __path__ manipulations?

regards.