Just van Rossum wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>>FWIW, I've done lots of stuff that scans sys.path directories for
>>various purposes. It would probably be a good idea to use a string
>>subclass for the zip importer, but I don't think we need to make
>>stringness an absolute requirement.
>> +1
>>>Let's make it *really* easy to use zip archives, and reasonably easy
>>to use other custom importers.
>> +1
Why not leave sys.path as list of ordinary strings and add
all the extra support to the existing import mechanism via
hooks at the right places ?!
E.g. such a hook may scan sys.path for files which end
in '.zip' and then redirect the lookups into their ZIP
archive directory.
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