Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-07 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 05/07/2014 01:13 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/7/2014 7:45 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote: >> On 5/6/2014 1:14 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> On 5/5/2014 5:32 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote: Hi, I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from Python scripts. To this poi

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/7/2014 7:45 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote: On 5/6/2014 1:14 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 5/5/2014 5:32 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote: Hi, I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from Python scripts. To this point I have been using frozen modules (compiled C) but this has the s

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-07 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 5/6/2014 1:14 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/5/2014 5:32 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from >> Python scripts. To this point I have been using frozen modules (compiled >> C) but this has the side effect of bundling parts o

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-06 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/5/2014 5:32 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote: Hi, I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from Python scripts. To this point I have been using frozen modules (compiled C) but this has the side effect of bundling parts of Python with a cx_Freeze release -- and this has bitt

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > > > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga > wrote: > > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained > > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want t

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Thanks. I think I can live with that restriction. :-) I do not read/write to the same zip file in the same process. Anthony On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Anthony Tuininga < > anthony.tuini...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 5, 20

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has remained > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > > Please advise! Thanks. > > I believe this is a

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: >> > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has >> remained >> > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't w

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > > Please advise! Thanks. > > I believe

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has remained > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > Please advise! Thanks. I believe this is a 100% supported feature of Python (since 2.6, as you men

[Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Hi, I am the author of cx_Freeze which creates "frozen" executables from Python scripts. To this point I have been using frozen modules (compiled C) but this has the side effect of bundling parts of Python with a cx_Freeze release -- and this has bitten me on a number of occasions when newer versi