[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

[stephen at xemacs.org]

Talin writes:
 > (one additional postscript - One thing I would be interested in is an 
 > approach that unifies file paths and URLs so that there is a consistent 
 > locator scheme for any resource, whether they be in a filesystem, on a 
 > web server, or stored in a zip file.)

+1

But doesn't file:/// do that for files, and couldn't we do something
like zipfile:///nantoka.zip#foo/bar/baz.txt?  Of course, we'd want to
do ziphttp://your.server.net/kantoka.zip#foo/bar/baz.txt, too.  That
way leads to madness....