[Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I do want to support it; that's why we put the facilities you found
> there in the first place. Unfortunately nobody actually did the
> necessary second step of trying to bundle the stdlib and trying to
> make the tests pass. So I think it would be great if we addressed the
> issues you found, or at least started prioritizing them.

This is the main stdlib API designed to avoid the need to make the
filesystem imports assumption (as you can also use it to read source
files):
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/pkgutil#pkgutil.get_data

Cheers,
Nick.

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