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OTOH I will certainly be able to work around the lacking
stat()ability; but I *need* to access the data.

I'm occupied with urgent Zope Corp work this week, so I
don't have time to review more of this code, alas. But I
recommend that Just incorporate the changes that Jim
Ahlstrom suggested (from Jim's patch) to allow the standard
library to be a zip archive (adding a standard zip file on
the path).

If after that you still have time and energy, I'd like the
search for builtins and for frozen modules to be turned into
meta-importers (or whatever you call them) that are placed
on the meta-importers hook list. That would be a nice
refactoring of import.c!