Paul Moore wrote:
On 14 June 2010 07:59, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote:

- why does the filename encode some metadata (which python version if
the package contains extensions, platform specifier) ?

I believe that this
is so that the basic metadata can be obtained as part of an initial
listdir()

It would also seem useful to be able to keep a collection
of versions of a package for different python configurations
in the same directory without their names clashing.

--
Greg
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