Python JAR files?

[Gerhard Häring]

Ian S. Nelson <nelsonis at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Has anyone built something like JAR files for python yet?  Any plans to?
> 
> As a packaging medium and for installing stuff on to machines it would
> be nice to have a python app that resides within one file.  tar.gz or
> .zip or something also compress quite nicely.

freeze, py2exe, Installer, cx_Freeze and the like create executable programs,
including the Python modules used. Maybe you're really looking for something
like these?

Apart from this, there's a patch in the Sourceforge patches section of the
Python project for importing from a zip file.
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