[New-bugs-announce] [issue2439] Patch to add a get_data function to pkgutil

[Paul Moore]

New submission from Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:

This patch adds a new get_data function to the pkgutil module, allowing
access to data stored in the package directory. It wraps the PEP 302
loader "get_data" function, so that it works with such loaders (for
example, zipimport).

The patch includes documentation and tests (I created a new test_pkgutil
test module, but did not add tests for the existing pkgutil functionality).

All tests pass on Windows against svn rev 61679 (except test_tcl, which
was skipped as I didn't build TCL support).

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components: Library (Lib)
files: pkgutil.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 64208
nosy: pmoore
severity: normal
status: open
title: Patch to add a get_data function to pkgutil
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9792/pkgutil.patch

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