[Python-Dev] Safely importing zip files with C extensions

[Vinay Sajip]

Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes:

> zipping from ever happening. This is an important reason why wheel is
> billed as an installation format -- fewer users with pitchforks. It's
> very cool that it works though. Debugging is slightly easier than it
> was in the old days because pdb can now read the source code from the
> zip.

Well, it's just an experiment, and I was soliciting comments because I'm not as
familiar with the issues as some others are. Distlib is still only at version
0.1.1, and the mount()/unmount() functionality is not set in stone :-)

Regards,

Vinay Sajip