On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Do you happen to know what those key cases are ? cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
