Importing modules from zip files was proposed in PEP-273 [1] Here is how the spec of PEP-273 begins:
''' Currently, sys.path is a list of directory names as strings. If this PEP is implemented, an item of sys.path can be a string naming a zip file archive. ''' My interpretation of the above is that, to be importable, a zip file must be explicitly named in sys.path. So the mere fact that a zip file lies somewhere in a directory which is part of the sys.path does not make it importable. Cheers, Luciano [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0273/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
