[issue1116520] Prefix search is filesystem-centric

[Steve Holden]

Steve Holden added the comment:

Don't forget that the built-in modules may need to be available before the
zipimporter is. A long time ago (when sys.metapath was introduced) I
experimented with imports from non-filesystem sources and that hit me until
I realised what was going on.

S

Steve Holden

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Patrik Iselind <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Patrik Iselind added the comment:
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> Is it enough to include everything in the Lib folder, excluding
> __pycache__, site-packages and the test folder in Lib? Would that be
> representative enough?
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> Patrik Iselind
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> Den 2016-12-25 kl. 17:31, skrev Brett Cannon:
> > Brett Cannon added the comment:
> >
> > Originally zip file importing was faster than standard importing from
> disk because of the fewer stat calls, but importlib caches such things so I
> don't know if it's still beneficial. As for space savings, I have no idea;
> you can try zipping the files yourself to find out the space savings.
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