[Distutils] Installing scripts

Bob Kimble rjkimble at alum.mit.edu
Thu Jun 10 18:35:40 EDT 2004


On Thursday 10 June 2004 06:20 pm, Tim Peters wrote:
> 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$).

I leave the .py extensions on all my Python scripts. I generally use .sh for 
shell scripts, too. I use symbolic links if I want a version without the 
extension.

.... Bob



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