On Sat, 04 May 2013 11:41:27 +1000 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > 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? > > I've had Linux systems which associated OpenOffice docs with Archive Manager > rather than OpenOffice. It's likely that at least some Linux systems will > likewise decide that .pyz files are archives, not Python files, and open them > in Archive Manager.
What would that have to do with the file extension? If some Linux systems decide that .ods and .pyz files are archives, it's probably because they *are* archives in their own right (though specialized ones). Probably the libmagic (used e.g. by the `file` command) wasn't up-to-date enough to specifically recognize OpenOffice documents, so it simply recognized the ZIP file structure and detected the file as such. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
