Would pyzw be much better than reading the shebang line for Windows? On Mar 29, 2013 4:11 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > WinZip will ignore anything in the front of the file since the zip > > directory doesn't reference it. The #! shebang is for Unix, would > > point to the correct Python, and the +x flag would make it executable. > > The mini PEP is for the .pyz registration and for publicity. > > The two big reasons almost nobody knows about the executable zip files > and directories is we forgot to mention it in the original 2.6 What's > New (it's there now, but was added much later), and it was done in a > tracker issue [1] (with Guido participating) rather than as a PEP. > > A new PEP to: > > * register the .pyz and .pyzw extensions in the 3.4 Windows installer > * ship a tool for creating an executable pyz or pyzw file from a > directory of pure-Python files (warning if any extension files are > noticed, and with the option of bytecode precompilation) > > Would be great. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue1739468 > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >
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