[IPython-dev] Why .py files?

[Edward K. Ream]

> Some of the arguments for using *.py files, and the eventual rejection
> of these arguments in favor of XML, as well as Robert Kern's prototype
> implementation which uses XML as a storage format, have been discussed
> exhaustively on this list in the last few weeks

So notebooks are xml files and not .py files?  In that case, what, if any, 
of the original proposal remains valid?  Is there a summary of the present 
proposal?

Thanks.

Edward
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