2009/4/5 <"Tarek Ziadé <report@bugs.python.org>"@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> > Does distutils use _zip_directory_cache in any way?
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> Not at all. But pkgutil does,

Ah, OK.

> and uses to get a dirlist,

Couldn't one just open the zip file with zipfile to get the directory list?
Is there any real requirement that the cache must be used?

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> so I guess a new API should be created in zipimport to handle this case
> as well. (I think it's some setuptools code originallyt, that landed in
> pkgutil)

Probably.