Paul Moore wrote: > On 15/07/07, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, it seems that memory sticks and USB thumb drives are >> often formatted with FAT because that's the closest we have to a >> universal file format. > > I think they tend to use FAT32 (the ones I've seen do), which does > support long filenames and more than 3 character extensions. >
In general, this is not true. FAT16 can address a 2GB device and I can think of at least one embedded system I am working with that does not support FAT32. If anything, at least .pyzip reduces to .pyz in 8dot3 (whereas .py.z reduces to .z *yikes!*). However, I think it is still best practice to aim for 8dot3 naming. -Scott -- Scott Dial [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
