[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Sat May 16 22:26:18 CEST 2009


On approximately 5/16/2009 1:08 PM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Martin v. Löwis:
> Alexander Shigin wrote:
>> В Сбт, 16/05/2009 в 14:58 -0400, P.J. Eby пишет:
>>> ";" *is* valid in Windows filenames, actually.  Tabs aresn't.
>> I was sure ';' is separator for PATH in Windows. Do I miss something? 
> 
> Yes, this:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx


Well, maybe he was missing that, or maybe he was missing that each entry 
in the Windows PATH is allowed to be quoted, so that ; characters inside 
quotes are part of path names, and ; characters outside of quotes are 
separators.


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