JAR-like facility for Python?

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Chris Ryland wrote:
> 
> Has anyone ever built a Jar-like facility for Python, such that you

This was discussed seriously a few years ago, but was never
completed.  The zipfile module has a class which easily creates
jar files, and at one time there was a class in the imputil
module to import them.  But imputil never became "standard".
And there is the problem of needing imputil.py to do imports,
but not being able to import it (chicken and egg).  So it almost
happened, but not quite.

Jim Ahlstrom