Thomas Heller <theller <at> ctypes.org> writes: > Ok, now I understand. But the zipfile could contain a loader-module > for each extension which does something like this (this example extracts > and loads 'bz2.pyd'):
In distlib, I've built on top of the zipfile support to allow C extensions to be available. Ordinary zipfiles contain no metadata indicating the extensions available, but wheels built with distil do. The wheel handling code in distlib takes advantage of this. The Wheel.mount() API [1] takes care of this (adding the wheel to sys.path, extracting the extensions to a user-specific directory and using an import hook to call imp.load_dynamic when required, so that both Python modules and extensions are available for import). It seems to work, though when I introduced the Wheel.mount() API I was told that it was very dangerous, and the sky would fall, or something :-) Regards, Vinay Sajip [1] http://distlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial.html#mounting-wheels _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
