From darrell@dorb.com Mon Aug 2 05:12:40 1999 From: darrell@dorb.com (Darrell) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:12:40 -0400 Subject: [Distutils] pyz VS zip Message-ID: <00c601bedc9d$43aefbf0$69c35f18@rochester.rr.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00C3_01BEDC7B.BC1A2230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Warning, new comer at large. I've been playing with Gordon's win32 installer and really like the idea of the .pyz to wrap things up. I've been doing the same thing with zlib to create .pyc files. I send them=20 too other people I work with. They execute the .pyc which explodes on their disk. It runs a setup.py file and handles platform details. Archives are real handy and zip is a pretty standard one. So wouldn't zip compatibility be good. It seems that=20 understanding the header format for zip along with zlib might let you decode a zip. There's a bunch of zip info at: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/Info-ZIP.html And an unzip.dll that could be used if decoding the header was too much pain. Has anyone tried to work with zips from python ? --Darrell ------=_NextPart_000_00C3_01BEDC7B.BC1A2230 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable