On 29 Mar, 2013, at 21:11, 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
Also: * add support for .pyz and .pyzw support to Python Launcher on OSX > * 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) Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
