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

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Hi, I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from Python scripts. To this point I have been using frozen modules (compiled C) but this has the side effect of bundling parts of Python with a cx_Freeze release -- and this has bitten me on a number of occasions when newer versi

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

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga 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. > &g

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

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Thanks. I think I can live with that restriction. :-) I do not read/write to the same zip file in the same process. Anthony On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Anthony Tuininga < > anthony.tuini...@gmail.com> wrote: >

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

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > > > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga > wrote: > > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained >