Why can't I store a DLL in a module library Zip file?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> It's almost like shared libraries are disallowed from the module
> library Zip format.

Correct. That's a limitation of the Windows operating system, which can
load DLLs only from plain, regular files. Python can load .py files from
zip files because it implements the loading itself. For DLL loading, it
must use the OS routines, which just don't look into zipfiles.

Regards,
Martin