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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Feb 18 22:41:44 CET 2015

On Feb 18, 2015, at 09:16 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

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

I was actually thinking about both. :)

The Wikipedia page has several external links to collections of file extensions, but I don't know that there's an official registry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_extension

Picking FileInfo.com at random, and searching for a few .py* extensions, you find the usual suspects, plus a few others, but all are Python related, and there's no .pyz extension currently registered.

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...

Probably so. Seems like they could pick one or more of these registries and register pyz for this purpose.

Cheers, -Barry

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