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Author brett.cannon
Recipients brett.cannon, carljm, eric.araujo, eric.snow, gregory.p.smith, holdenweb, ncoghlan, patriki, superluser, terry.reedy
Date 2016-12-25.16:31:59
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Originally zip file importing was faster than standard importing from disk because of the fewer stat calls, but importlib caches such things so I don't know if it's still beneficial. As for space savings, I have no idea; you can try zipping the files yourself to find out the space savings.
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