[Python-Dev] zipimport

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:20:10 +0000
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 
> I vaguely remember people suggesting writing the minimal zip reading code
> in C but I can't remember why since we have I/O access in importlib through
> _io and thus it's really just the pulling apart of the zip file to get at
> the files to import and thus should be doable in pure Python.

You would need other modules, such as struct and zlib, right?

Regards

Antoine.