On 04/05/13 15:13, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> > Rather than risk obscure bugs, I would suggest restricting the extensions
> > to 3 characters. For the “Windowed Python ZIP Applications” case, could we
> > use .pzw as the extension instead of .pyzw?
+0
> Many official Microsoft file extensions are four or more letters,
> e.g. docx.
Give us a non-MS example, please. Nobody in their right mind would
clash with a major MS product's naming conventions. Not even if their
file format implements Digital-Ocular Coordination eXtensions. And a
shell that borks the Borg's extensions won't make it in the market.
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Are you suggesting that four
letter extensions are restricted to Microsoft products? If so, that would be an
excellent reason to avoid .pyzw, but I don't believe that is the case.
Common 4+ letter extensions include .html, .tiff, .jpeg, .mpeg, .midi, .java
and .torrent.
--
Steven
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