[Python-Dev] Another approach for the import mechanism

Martin v. Löwis martin@v.loewis.de
06 Dec 2002 00:37:55 +0100


Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com> writes:

> I need some english classes then. :-)
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.2/__init__.zip (or __module__.zip, or whatever)

So you can have only a single multi-file non-package zipfile in each
directory on sys.path? I find this quite ugly: a directory with only a
single file in it, and potentially many of these. What is the
advantage of this limitation?

Regards,
Martin