[Catalog-sig] Allowing the upload of .py files at PyPI

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 14.02.2013 23:38, Donald Stufft wrote:
> On Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> I don't follow the reasoning here. What's the difference between
>> uploading a .py file and a .tar.gz file ?
>>
>> AFAIK, the only reason why the file extensions are restricted is to
>> prevent people from uploading MP3s, movies or other material that doesn't
>> belong on PyPI - not because there are security concerns.
>>
> Personally (might by different for Nick) it's less a problem with uploading .py 
> files and more a problem with allowing arbitrary names.

Ok, then I guess allowing "[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\.py" is enough for starters...
we don't need to support the whole Unicode range on PyPI ;-)

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