README.md


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pyzipper
A small tool to package up a Python program and associated data files
as a single executable zip file.
All the facilities for this are already built into Python, this script
just ties it all together with a bow.
demo1 and demo2 are two trivial sample packages.
Tested with both Python 2 and Python 3, should work with either.
How it works
This relies on two somewhat obscure Python features:


The zipfile.PyZipFile class's ability to construct an executable
  ZIP file and populate it with Python modules, packages, and data;
  and


Python's ability to treat a zip file as equivalent to a directory
  tree on import.


demo1 takes advantage of a third obscure feature: the pkgutil
library's ability to load data files via the import system.