Colin J. Williams schrieb: > The role of Python25.zip is not clear. Is it required in the path just > to enable the import X.zip capability?
To rephrase Georg's explanation: it allows Python distributors (e.g. Linux distributors, or ActiveState) to put all of the Python library (including site.py) into a single zip file, instead of requiring a Lib directory with many files in it. E.g. on Windows, a complete Python installation could consist of three files: python.exe, python25.dll, and python25.zip. To make that possible, you can't tell people that they have to edit site.py to put a zip file on sys.path, instead, the distributed interpreter must already look for a file even though this file will usually not be present. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
