[Python-Dev] Zip format (was: Questions about distutils strategy )

[Guido van Rossum]

> Is it possible nowadays to have two files with the same name but different 
> paths (i.e. foo/bar.py and foo/spam/bar.py) in the same archive?
> 
> That's the one thing that always struck me as very very silly about zipfiles.

Zip files contain the full path, there's no problem with that.  Was
there ever?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)