[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

[Scott Dial]

stephen at xemacs.org wrote:
> 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....
> 

It would make more sense to register protocol handlers to this magical 
unification of resource manipulation. But allow me to perform my first 
channeling of Guido.. YAGNI.

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Scott Dial
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