Re: [Python-Dev] Path object design

Mike Orr wrote:

I have no idea why Microsoft thought it was a good idea to put the seven-odd device files in every directory. Why not force people to type the colon ("CON:").

Yes, this is a particularly stupid piece of braindamage on the part of the designers of MS-DOS. As far as I remember, even CP/M (which was itself a severely warped and twisted version of RT11) had the good sense to put colons on the end of such things.

But maybe "design" is too strong a word to apply to MS-DOS...

Anyhow, I think I agree that there's really nothing a path library can do about this. Whatever it tries to do, the fact will remain that it's impossible to have a regular file called "con", and users will have to live with that.

-- Greg