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[Python-Dev] zipimport

Rose Ames rose at happyspork.com
Thu Jun 4 04:10:04 CEST 2015 
On 06/03/2015 08:56 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le 03/06/2015 14:34, Rose Ames a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On 06/03/2015 04:59 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:20:10 +0000
>>> Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I vaguely remember people suggesting writing the minimal zip reading code
>>>> in C but I can't remember why since we have I/O access in importlib through
>>>> _io and thus it's really just the pulling apart of the zip file to get at
>>>> the files to import and thus should be doable in pure Python.
>>>
>>> You would need other modules, such as struct and zlib, right?
>>>
>> zlib is already required for compressed zips:
>>
>> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/zipimport.c#L1030
>
> Ah, the C code already importing the zlib module? Then I guess it's fine :-)
>
>> Do some companies
>> zip the standard library or something?
>
> I don't know. If they do so, they probably exclude the zlib module in
> some way.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

Sounds like I can just add a zipimporter to Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py 
and remove zipimport.c entirely, is that right?
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