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Wed Feb 25 17:02:51 CET 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-February/138559.html

On 24 February 2015 at 18:58, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> The naming of the functions feels inconsistent -- maybe pack(directory,
> target) -> create_archive(directory, archive), and set_interpreter() ->
> copy_archive(archive, new_archive)?

Paul Moore wrote:
> One possible source of confusion with copy_archive (and its command
> line equivalent "python -m zipapp old.pyz -o new.pyz") is that it
> isn't technically a copy, as it changes the shebang line (if you omit
> the interpreter argument it removes the existing shebang).

Is the difference between create and copy important?  e.g., is there
anything wrong with

create_archive(old_archive, output=new_archive) working as well as
create_archive(directory, archive)?

-jJ

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