Re: [Python-Dev] Three-char file extensions

Paul Moore wrote:

On 15/07/07, Aahz wrote:

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Also, it seems that memory sticks and USB thumb drives are often formatted with FAT because that's the closest we have to a universal file format.

I think they tend to use FAT32 (the ones I've seen do), which does support long filenames and more than 3 character extensions.

In general, this is not true. FAT16 can address a 2GB device and I can think of at least one embedded system I am working with that does not support FAT32. If anything, at least .pyzip reduces to .pyz in 8dot3 (whereas .py.z reduces to .z *yikes!*). However, I think it is still best practice to aim for 8dot3 naming. -Scott -- Scott Dial scott@scottdial.com scodial@cs.indiana.edu