[Python-Dev] Importing packages from command line

[Nick Coghlan]

Dmitry Vasiliev wrote:

> The main idea is to treating package as a program and run package 
> initialization code from command line. The advantage is zipping all 
> program modules in one zip archive and running the program from command 
> line without unzipping it, like Java's jar's. But this idea need more 
> thoughts however...
> 

   python runzip.py mypkg.zip

where runzip.py is a pure Python script that works as you suggest.

I'm fairly sure zipimport would allow you to write the program you 
describe in pure Python. I've obviously never written such a program, 
though.

It's certainly an interesting packaging idea for small Python programs 
with several files, but for which a full-blown installer would be overkill.

Cheers,
Nick.

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