Re: Python idea/proposal to assist in single-archive python applications

2008-12-07 Thread Brian Allen Vanderburg II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use pkgutil.get_data()? Provided you remember to put your zip file on PYTHONPATH you can already run modules directly out of a zipfile (Python 2.5 and later).If your zipfile contains __main__.py then with Python 2.6 or later you can run it directly: just spec

Re: Python idea/proposal to assist in single-archive python applications

2008-12-07 Thread Duncan Booth
Brian Allen Vanderburg II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition it is needed to be able to open a file just as easily > whether that file is in the archive or not. Assuming that a datafile in > an application may be located relative to the '__file__' attributes, the > following will not wor