[egenix-users] pyrunning zip files

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 05.03.2013 19:45, Paul A. Giannaros wrote:
> CPython >= 2.6 lets you run a script __main__.py within a zip archive
> foo.zip with:
> 
>     $ python foo.zip
> 
> This doesn't work with pyrun:
> 
>     $ pyrun foo.zip
>     ...
>     SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xf1' in file foo.zip on line 2,
> but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
> for details
> 
> 
> It's a useful feature (it's how we deploy code in the company that I
> work). Would you please consider adding it?

I'll open a ticket for this. Didn't even know this feature existed :-)

Apparently, this never got documented apart from the issue in the
bug tracker and the "What's new" entry:

http://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.6.html?highlight=python%20run%20zip%20files#other-language-changes

... searching for "__main__.py" returns 0 results. I've also opened
a ticket on the Python bug tracker for this.

Thanks,
-- 
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