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[Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 6 00:16:05 CEST 2014 
On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga <anthony.tuininga at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has
remained
> > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything.
> > Please advise! Thanks.
>
> I believe this is a 100% supported feature of Python (since 2.6, as
> you mention). Some of the zip import/run features have unfortunately
> been underdocumented, and I suspect that this is simply one of those.

sys.path initialisation in general is woefully underspecified and
thoroughly confusing :(

Fixing that is actually one of the motivating forces behind the proposed
startup improvements in PEP 432.

Cheers,
Nick.

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> Paul
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