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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:59:52 +1000
Subject: Re: Distributing python applications as a zip file
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Linux, you can even hack the zip file to include a shebang line!
>
>
> steve@runes:~$ cat appl
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # This is a Python application stored in a ZIP archive.
> steve@runes:~$ cat appl.zip >> appl
> steve@runes:~$ chmod u+x appl
> steve@runes:~$ ./appl
> NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!

This, by the way, depends on a feature of the zip file format: you
start reading from the back, with the key indexes, and then come to
the front. It's designed to allow various self-extracting archive
formats to be easily unzipped (imagine, if you will, a SFX built for
Windows when you're on Unix - rather than try to run the program (with
all the difficulties and risks that would entail), you just unzip it),
and it works nicely here too. I suppose, then, it would be possible to
make a minimal Unix SFX prefix: "#!/usr/bin/env unzip\n" on the
beginning of a zip should do the job :)

(Yes, I'm aware that that violates most of the point of an SFX, in
that the target system doesn't need to have pkunzip installed, but
it's still neat how short it can be.)

ChrisA