On 3 Jan 2016, at 3:41 am, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > -- > >>>>> "Brett" == Brett Cannon <[email protected]> writes: > > > I opened > > https://bugs.python.org/issue25711 to specifically try to > > fix this issue once and for all and along the way modernize > > zipimport by rewriting it from scratch to be more > > maintainable > > Every time I read about impementing a custom loader: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html > > I've wondered why python does not have some sort of virtual > filesystem layer to deal with locating modules/packages/support > files. Virtual file systems seem like a good way to store data on a > wide range of storage devices. > > Yeah, but most devices already implement a *real* filesystem, so the only > time the VFS would come in handy would be for zipfiles, where we already have > a solution.
Just to point out that it would be nice to have an easier way to use something other that zipfiles. I have a need to exploit a different solution and have to patch the bootstrap code (because the zipfile support is handled as a special case). BTW the need is to create iOS and Android executables from frozen Python code. Phil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com