Re: [Python-Dev] Attempt script name with '.py' appended instead of failing?

For about the 1,000,000th time in my life (no exaggeration :-), I just typed "python.exe foo" - I forgot the .py.

It would seem a simple and useful change to append a ".py" extension and try-again, instead of dieing the first time around - ie, all we would be changing is that we continue to run where we previously failed.

Is there a good reason why we dont do this?

Just inertia, plus it's "not the Unix way". I agree it's a good idea. (I also found in user testsing that IDLE definitely has to supply the ".py" when saving a module if the user didn't.) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)