[Python-Dev] __file__

[Henning von Bargen]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Another option is to remove bytecode-only support from the default
> filesystem importer, but keep it for zipimport (since the stat call
> savings don't apply in the latter case).

+1

Baptiste Carvello wrote:

> However, making a difference between zipimport and the filesystem importer means 
> the application will stop working if I unzip the library zip file, which is 
> surprising.
 > Unzipping the zip file can be handy when debugging a bug caused by a
> forgotten module.

If the ZIP contains only bytecode files, it is just not intended
for changing any code, so I don't think this is an argument.
If you have access to the source code, you still can use that instead
of messing around with byte code.

Henning