On 14 June 2010 07:59, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few questions about the egg format implementation, and was > hoping people who designed it could answer them: > - why does the filename encode some metadata (which python version if > the package contains extensions, platform specifier) ?
I'm not one of the designers, nor an expert, but I believe that this is so that the basic metadata can be obtained as part of an initial listdir(), without needing to open and read a file at all - so essentially it's to reduce the number of OS calls needed in certain key cases. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
