File::S...::pyzip(3)

💖 ABOUT 💖

okay bestie, welcome to File::S...::pyzip(3) — a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and the whole vibe is literally this: Python supports running .zip'd .py files. no cap. 🐍✨

Here's the iconic little sequence, exactly as it goes:

$ cat __main__.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
print("Hello World")
$ zip pyzip.zip __main__.py
$ head -1 __main__.py | cat - pyzip.zip > pyzip
$ chmod a+x pyzip

The way these .zip files need special handling so the shebang doesn't get mangled? yeah, that's the whole thing — they require special handling to not mangle the shebang. 💅

🦋 DEPRECATION PLAN 🦋

Lowkey the deprecation plan is unclear, bestie — because many tools can, after all, generate these .zip files. so that's the tea. 🫶

that’s the page, babe — source/version perl v5.42.3, dated 1980-01-01, and the manual is File::S...::pyzip(3). 💖🎀