Warning: experimental code!
Overview
========
zipextimporter.py contains the ZipExtImporter class which allows to
load Python binary extension modules contained in a zip.archive,
without unpacking them to the file system.
Call the zipextimporter.install() function to install the import hook,
add a zip-file containing .pyd or .dll extension modules to sys.path,
and import them.
It uses the _memimporter extension which uses code from Joachim
Bauch's MemoryModule library. This library emulates the win32 api
function LoadLibrary.
Sample usage
============
>>> import zipextimporter
>>> zipextimporter.install()
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append("lib.zip")
>>> import _socket
>>> _socket.__file__
'c:\\sf\\py2exe\\hacks\\memimp\\lib.zip\\_socket.pyd'
>>> _socket.__loader__
<ZipExtensionImporter at a74480>
>>>
Bugs
====
reload() on already imported extension modules does not work
correctly: It happily loads the extension a second time.
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/Hacks_2fZipExtImporter
Cheers,
Thomas
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