Jim's latest update

pep-0273.txt

@@ -134,16 +134,15 @@ Booting
     find its corresponding libraries even when there are multiple
     Python versions on the same machine.
 
-    This PEP suggests a zip archive name equal to the Python
-    interpreter path with extension ".zip" (eg, /usr/bin/python.zip)
-    which is always prepended to sys.path.  So a directory with python
-    and python.zip is complete.  This would work fine on Windows, as
-    it is common to put supporting files in the directory of the
-    executable.  But it may offend Unix fans, who dislike bin
-    directories being used for libraries.  It might be fine to
-    generate different defaults for Windows and Unix if necessary, but
-    the code will be in C, and there is no sense getting complicated.
-
+    I propose that there is one name added to sys.path, and the
+    file name is "python%s%s.zip" % (sys.version[0], sys.version[2]).
+    For example, python22.zip.  This is the same on all platforms.
+    On Unix, the directory is sys.prefix + "/lib".  So for prefix
+    /usr/local, the path /usr/local/lib/python2.2/ is already on
+    sys.path, and /usr/local/lib/python22.zip would be added.
+    On Windows, the directory is the directory of sys.executable.
+    The zip archive name is always inserted as the second item
+    in sys.path.  The first always seems to be ''.
 
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