Source code in Inlined zip file

zentara has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I saw in a Python script called youtube-downloader, that all the modules and main script code were all condensed into an inline zip file, which would be automatically decompressed by the Python Interpreter. It's first few lines would look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@&#61963;B...^Q^X'^@^@..^@^@^\^@^\^@youtube_dl/FileDo
+wnloader.pyUT    ^@^C..fQ%zfQux^K^@^A^D.^C^@^@^D.^C^@^@.=.w.Fr... &#1
+555;.^B.)Xv.k......
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I've since learned that you can unzip it manually if you cut'n'paste properly.

So does Perl have a way of doing this? I thought is was a cool feature.

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Re: Source code in Inlined zip file ( pp -P -o out.pl -x infile.pl ) by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2013 at 04:43 UTC
what ateague said :) pp -P -o out.pl -x infile.pl perl out.pl zipdata in __END__ of out.pl Also https://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos	[reply]
Re: Source code in Inlined zip file by LanX (Saint) on Dec 23, 2013 at 18:18 UTC
dunno about a ready to use module for that, but putting the compressed code after __DATA__ and uncompressing it in a one-liner shouldn't be too difficult and not much longer. But there was a module to pack modules into one file ... others will certainly remember the name! =) Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]
Re: Source code in Inlined zip file by ateague (Monk) on Dec 23, 2013 at 19:25 UTC
Isn't this what `PAR::Packer` et al. does?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Source code in Inlined zip file by bhildred (Novice) on Dec 24, 2013 at 04:23 UTC
This Should be easy to do as a source filter, I started one but didn't like that it was less friendly to standard tools.	[reply]
Re: Source code in Inlined zip file by aitap (Curate) on Dec 27, 2013 at 17:25 UTC
There is also App::FatPacker which packs all (pure-perl) dependencies into a text file which does not require decompressing before reading. You might want to check out App::Staticperl, an application to build a standalone Perl executable with necessary modules and code to run included (like `perlcc` on steroids, uses C code in the middle stage, too). _{Edit: removed some wrong info about PAR}	[reply] [d/l]