[Python-Dev] PEP 273: Import Modules from Zip Archives

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> - Writing stuff back to .zip files is totally the wrong approach.
> 
> - I don't care about having .so files inside packages *in zipfiles*.
> 
> - I'm not sure I care about having .so files inside packages on the
>   filesystem; they are useful in Zope, but for very hackish reasons.
> 
> - If the zip file has the .py file but no .pyc or the wrong .pyc, tant
>   pis.  Let it be slower.  (But if it has the .pyo, use that.)

Let me look at coding the above.  It seems like a good approach.
I will update the PEP too.

JimA