Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > The wheel implementation makes sure all the metadata (the .dist-info > directory) > is at the end of the .zip archive. It's possible to read the metadata with a > single HTTP partial request for the end of the archive without downloading the > entire archive.
Sounds good, but can you point to any example code which does this? As I understand it, for .zip files you have to read the last part of the file to get a pointer to the directory, then read that to find where each file in the archive is, then seek to a specific position to read the file contents. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ 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
