[Python-Dev] PEP 4XX: pyzaa "Improving Python ZIP Application Support"

[Glenn Linderman]

On 4/1/2013 5:47 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
> users expect .py to be opened with a text editor.

This user expects .py to be executed as an executable script, and thinks 
that is the default after an installation of Python on Windows.  Windows 
has a separate option, Edit, to use to edit things.

But, I'm glad to see you write the PEP. I have an even thinner method of 
doing this, using .py extensions, that I've been using for several years 
now with Python 3, and wondered why it wasn't more popular.

My equivalent of pyzaa, though, only performs the pack operation, and 
requires a bit of cooperation from the application (as a convenient way 
of storing the application-specific parameters, I build the invocation 
of pyzaa-equivalent into the application itself using a non-documented 
command-line option, and build to a different directory, to avoid 
overwriting application.py).

Feel free to incorporate all or parts of that idea if it makes sense to 
you and sounds convenient.
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