PEP 302 + zipimport:
- new import hooks in import.c, exposed in the sys module
- new module called 'zipimport'
- various changes to allow bootstrapping from zip files
I hope I didn't break the Windows build (or anything else for that
matter), but then again, it's been sitting on sf long enough...
Regarding the latest discussions on python-dev: zipimport sets
pkg.__path__ as specified in PEP 273, and likewise, sys.path item such as
/path/to/Archive.zip/subdir/ are supported again.
diff --git a/Modules/Setup.dist b/Modules/Setup.dist
index 6df361d..5388086 100644
--- a/Modules/Setup.dist
+++ b/Modules/Setup.dist
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@
_sre _sre.c # Fredrik Lundh's new regular expressions
_codecs _codecsmodule.c # access to the builtin codecs and codec registry
+# The zipimport module is always imported at startup. Having it as a
+# builtin module avoids some bootstrapping problems and reduces overhead.
+zipimport zipimport.c
+
# The rest of the modules listed in this file are all commented out by
# default. Usually they can be detected and built as dynamically
# loaded modules by the new setup.py script added in Python 2.1. If