On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:20:20PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.] ...

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We just need to make sure the .py is there on Windows and not on installed scripts on Unix.

I have to ask: is this "a Fred thing", or common Linux fashion? Back in my Unix days, I always left the .py extension on my Python scripts, probably because I'm not Barry (i.e., I refused to stuff emacs turds inside my files, and my emacs auto-mode trigger was something like *\.py$).

If it's a "Fred thing", then call me Fred ;) I despise having to call whatever.sh, something.py and heavenforbid.pl. From the command line, what do I care what the script is written in, or even if it's a script, an ELF. or an alias. Extensions are fine for developers, because they need to know implementation details. User's do not, and making them know is just rude (IMNSHO). mwa -- Mark W. Alexander slash@dotnetslash.net The contents of this message authored by Mark W. Alexander are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Copyright of quoted materials are retained by the original author(s). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/