[Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 16 01:55:02 CET 2007


Mike Krell wrote:

copies of ".emacs" would be made as ".1.emacs", ".2.emacs", etc.

But that's not going to work for other extensionless files that don't begin with a dot. The fact that it happens to work for .emacs files and the like is just a fluke due to Windows' ignorance of Unix file naming conventions.

-- Greg



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