[Skip Montanaro] > I don't think zipimport supports importing from zip files > with appended stuff. I suspect it needs to know the last N > bytes form the zip length. Don't know about zipimport, but zip files are designed to be opened from the back. [Neil Schemenauer] > I suppose some executable formats do not like extra data > appended at the end. It's an ELF / COFF trick. [Neil Schemenauer again] > I mean that Unix users are less likely to want a stand-alone > executable instead of a Python script. Also, stand-alone > executables are usually intended for end users with little or > no Python development skills. Almost all of those people are > using windows. It may be a surprise to the developer community, but there are a lot of Unix users who are not developers and do not have root priveleges on their machines. These people want to install to ~/bin and don't particularly care what the install looks like. In this country it's usually analysts, statisticians and scientists. In other countries where MS is not so popular, it's anybody. [in general] The trick being discussed really doesn't cut the mustard on *nix anyway, because shared libs will be involved. -- Gordon http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/
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