[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure (original) (raw)

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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