On 7/12/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right, but it's supposed to be cross platform, as mentioned in the > patch. This will work on Windows. But in the description, you said that you do the same on Windows by making a file that is both a zip file and a batch file. So my approach is also cross-platform, no?
The approach is cross-platform, in that you can use the approach on different platforms. The result of the approach, however, is not cross-platform. You can't distribute your single zip-as-executable to both Windows and bourne-shell-using platforms. The -z argument does allow that. Why is the shell script not robust? There are a lot of subtleties in figuring out which python to execute, environment variables that you may or may not want to tweak (admittedly Google's solution that Andy referenced is more vulnerable to that, but it's not unique to Google by any means.) If you want any kind of flexibility in the packaged-up program, you need a bunch of logic in the shell script, and environment-tricks to pass information to the python process, start the python process and provide a bunch more logic in Python to boot. For instance, you need to set PYTHONPATH to include the zipfile before you can import from it, but you don't want that PYTHONPATH to be passed to subprocesses by accident. The -z argument makes it extremely simple: the user decides which python to run, and the program is run directly just like it would if it was unpacked and run that way. It makes it extremely easy to create 'single executables' out of multiple Python files, in the form that single .py files already are. It leaves building a more complex system (such as eggs) ontop of it entirely open. The change is a good thing, IMHO. And I say this not because we use a similar solution at Google -- we already solved it, and we won't be using the -z argument anytime soon anyway. I say this because I've had many requests from non-googlers for something exactly like this :) "" should not be removed from sys.path. It is *not* meant to be
the current directory, but the directory where the main script lives.
Yes. "" should either be interpreted as the zipfile, or be replaced by the zipfile. In the case of executing the zipfile, the main script lives *in the zipfile*. It's baggage that is rarely needed, and the feature can be readily
implemented in a different way for people who need it.
I disagree with both statements. The bagage is much less than zipimport itself, which has proven to be quite useful. Nevertheless, zipimport built into the interpreter was by no means necessary; current users of it could have readily implemented it themselves, with no changes to Python. (In fact, Google's 'autopar' tool does exactly that to support Python 2.2, which lacks zipimport.) This is a very small, logical and useful extension to zipimport, and I believe you will find more uses for it than you expect (although I do believe you yourself don't have a need for it. I just don't think you're a typical Python programmer in this case :) -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
