[Python-checkins] peps: Clarify wheels support zipimport

Tue Jan 28 14:26:55 CET 2014

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/811e34eda04c
changeset: 5364:811e34eda04c
user: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
date: Tue Jan 28 23:26:43 2014 +1000
summary:
 Clarify wheels support zipimport
files:
 pep-0427.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0427.txt b/pep-0427.txt
--- a/pep-0427.txt
+++ b/pep-0427.txt
@@ -381,6 +381,14 @@
 depending on whether it is pure Python or not and those files should
 be at the root with the appropriate setting given for "Root-is-purelib".
 
+Is it possible to import Python code directly from a wheel file?
+ Yes, the wheel format is deliberately designed to be compatible with
+ Python's support for importing from zip files. While not all wheels
+ will support being used that way (for example, if they include C
+ extensions), most pure Python wheels can be used that way just by
+ placing their name on ``sys.path``.
+
+
 References
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