[Import-SIG] PEP 420 sprint report

[Eric V. Smith]

On 05/04/2012 01:00 PM, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>> IMO, the no-explicit-directory case should be handled, if for no other
>> reason than that it shouldn't randomly break depending on which archiving
>> tool you used to create the zipfile with.
> 
> I agree. IIRC, the zip importer creates a cached list/dictionary of the
> zip directory, anyway; while doing so, it could easily synthesize the
> directory names.

Correct. It builds a dictionary. It could create another dictionary (or
set is all I really need) with all directories, found or synthesized.

Eric.