[Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 22:16:04 CET 2015

On 18 February 2015 at 20:48, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote:

I don't know exactly what the procedure would be to claim .pyz for *nix, e.g. updating /etc/mime.types, but I think the PEP should at least mention this. I think we want to get as official support for .pyz files on *nix as possible. Paul Moore wrote: I'll add a note to the PEP, but I have no idea how we would even go about that, so that's all I can do, unfortunately. Are you just looking for http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml and its references, including the registration procedures http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838#section-4.2.5 and the application form at http://www.iana.org/form/media-types ?

That covers mime types, but not file extensions, so it's not really what I thought Barry was talking about.

Actually, I guess the first question is whether ".py" is reserved for Python scripts. If it is, then certainly /pyz should be reserved in a similar way for Python Zip Applications. If there's no formal registration of .py, then it seems a bit unreasonable to bother for .pyz...

Also, I don't think reserving anything is something I, as an individual (and specifically a non-Unix user) should do. It probably should be handled by the PSF, as the process seems to need a contact email address...

Paul

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