At 11:32 AM 11/9/2005 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On 11/9/05, Osvaldo Santana <osantana at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've noticed this inconsistency when we stop to use zipimport in our > > Python For Maemo distribution. We've decided to stop using zipimport > > because the device (Nokia 770) uses a compressed filesystem. > >I won't comment further on the brainstorm that's going on (this is >becoming a topic for c.l.py) but I think you are misunderstanding the >point of zipimport. It's not done (usually) for the compression but >for the index. Finding a name in the zipfile index is much more >efficient than doing a directory search; and the zip index can be >cached. zipimport also helps distribution convenience - a large and elaborate package can be distributed in a single zipfile (such as is built by setuptools' "bdist_egg" command) and simply placed on PYTHONPATH or directly on sys.path. And tools like py2exe can also append all an application's modules to an executable file in zipped form.
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