JAR-like facility for Python?

[Fredrik Lundh]

James C. Ahlstrom wrote:
> But imputil never became "standard".

imputil might be work in progress, but it's been shipping with
Python since (at least) version 2.0.

> 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.

it sure happened: tools like PythonWorks and gordon mcmillan's
Installer can do this.

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