Python idea/proposal to assist in single-archive python applications

[Brian Allen Vanderburg II]

duncan.booth at invalid.invalid wrote:
>
> Why not use pkgutil.get_data()?
>
> Provided you remember to put your zip file on PYTHONPATH you can already 
> run modules directly out of a zipfile (Python 2.5 and later).If your 
> zipfile contains __main__.py then with Python 2.6 or later you can run it 
> directly: just specify the zip filename on the command line.
>
> I'm not sure what, if anything, you are asking for that doesn't already 
> exist in Python.
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I wasn't aware of __main__.py for Python 2.6, I think this will work for 
my needs.  I'll look into using pkgutil for for loading data from the 
archive.

Thanks.

Brian Vanderburg II