[zahlman]

> Isn't this what is already common in the Python community?

I'm not aware of standards language mandating it, but build tools generally do compress wheels and sdists.

If you're thinking of zipapps, those are not actually common.

[1718627440]

I was talking about using zipfile as a generic file format, instead of open and close.

[zahlman]

I'm afraid I don't understand specifically what you're referring to. Maybe you could show some code citations of popular projects doing it?