On 12/31/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:35 PM 12/31/2005 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: > >What's the purpose of transposition between `-' and `_'? -- -jeff > > The distutils put '-' between different parts of the filenames it > generates. If dashes aren't escaped, it prevents the filename from being > unambiguously parseable by a computer.
What's ambiguous? Unless distutils allows `-' in Version, I believe Name and Version can easily be extractable without transposition. Do you have a specific example that's not obvious? -- -jeff _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
