[Python-Dev] Inconsistent behaviour in import/zipimport hooks

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Wed Nov 9 22:55:04 CET 2005


On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:

> Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:
>
>> On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>>
>>> It's a shame that
>>>
>>> 1)  there's no equivalent of "java -jar", i.e., "python -z
>>> FILE.ZIP", and
>>
>> This should work on a few platforms:
>> env PYTHONPATH=FILE.zip python -m some_module_in_the_zip
>
> It should, yes - but it doesn't: -m doesn't work with zipimport.

That's dumb, someone should fix that.  Is there a bug filed?

-bob



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