Is there a way to import a Python egg from memory, but not a disk?

Question

Suppose I have a binary string containing a Python egg, all archived. Is there any way to execute and "import" this egg from memory without writing it to disk?

Answer 1

Some time ago I looked at pypiserver and could be something similar to what you need: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver/0.5.0

Standalone version https://raw.github.com/schmir/pypiserver/standalone/pypi-server-standalone.py

does interesting magic with DictImporter and the zlib library, maybe you can do something like this.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

imp: http://docs.python.org/library/imp.html

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The question is similar to the one asked a while ago: Python imports a line of Python code as a module

Answer 4

I am not familiar with Python eggs, but try using a StringIO object . Since Python uses duck typing , you can treat it the same way as a file if you do not invoke any specific file methods on it.