Message8576

One idea I have here is that the built-in open function should be able to take a jar URL to the file in question and this can be resolved automagically against a jar that is on sys.path (including via __classpath__)

This change should then work transparently with normal search path resolution.

It should be fairly easy to test this idea out, given that we can directly take the result of getResourceAsStream and pass it to open.