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The new zipimport module adds support for importing modules
from a ZIP-format archive. You don't need to import the module explicitly; it will be
automatically imported if a ZIP archive's filename is added to sys.path. For
example:
amk@nyman:~/src/python$ unzip -l /tmp/example.zip
Archive: /tmp/example.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
8467 11-26-02 22:30 jwzthreading.py
-------- -------
8467 1 file
amk@nyman:~/src/python$ ./python
Python 2.3 (#1, Aug 1 2003, 19:54:32)
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.insert(0, '/tmp/example.zip') # Add .zip file to front of path
>>> import jwzthreading
>>> jwzthreading.__file__
'/tmp/example.zip/jwzthreading.py'
>>>
An entry in sys.path can now be the filename of a ZIP archive. The ZIP
archive can contain any kind of files, but only files named *.py,
*.pyc, or *.pyo can be imported. If an
archive only contains *.py files, Python will not attempt to
modify the archive by adding the corresponding *.pyc file,
meaning that if a ZIP archive doesn't contain *.pyc files,
importing may be rather slow.
A path within the archive can also be specified to only import from a subdirectory; for
example, the path /tmp/example.zip/lib/ would only import from
the lib/ subdirectory within the archive.
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