Hyrum Wright

I actually find it useful to be able to specify the `.par` file as a dependency in other rules, such as `docker_build`. IIUC, that's not possible with the `--build_python_zip` flag.

@duggelz Regarding (4), do you have a link to where that discussion is ongoing?

`pkgutil` works, thanks. Is this in the documentation somewhere?

Slight correction: `pkgutil.get_data` returns a string (on Python 3 I believe it's actually `bytes`), not a file-like object. I personally have less interest in 2, but see how others might.

@duggelz If it's coming in Python 3.7, that means we'll only have to wait 3-4 years before it makes it into the distroless base images which `rules_docker` uses. :)

@duggelz Are those design discussions and planning happening some place public? This is relevant to my interests, and in the spirit of open source I wouldn't mind contributing if I...

fwiw, I've also been poking at this as documented here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bazel-discuss/LC97zBrMG84/cfVNdus-AwAJ It's been slow going, as I'm pretty unfamiliar with Bazel internals, and haven't been able to get the ear...