On 2021-01-10 at 05:03:08 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:51 AM Stephen J. Turnbull > <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > > > Joseph Martinot-Lagarde writes: > > > > > One remark about this : .tar.gz files are the exception rather than > > > the rule, and AFAIK maybe the only one ? > > > > Not really. stem.ext -> stem.ext.zzz where zzz is a compression > > extension is a pretty common naming convention. For me ext == 'tar' > > is by far the most common case (74%), 'tis true, but 'patch' (10%), > > 'txt' (6%), 'tab', 'gml', 'xml', 'svg', 'pdf', 'ps', ' dvi', 'diff', > > 'pdb', 'cpp', 'el', and 'data' also exist somewhere under $HOME. I'll > > bet others show up if I search /usr, /var, and /opt. > > Yep, and most of my man pages are compressed, so there's > usr/share/man/man1/*.1.gz and friends. > > I'd say the most common case with multiple extensions is indeed > precisely two, where the first one is the type of file (or in the case > of man pages, the section), and the second is a compression format. > But there'll be less common cases too. I also have a pile of whatever-x.y.z.* files, where the * is some kind of compression extension and x.y.z is a major.minor.patch identifier. Most of the time, my brain is big enough to spot where x.y.z ends and the extension(s) begin(s), but throw in a version identifier like 4.3.beta, and all bets are off (unless I happen to know exactly what to look for, in which case I wouldn't bother with a general purpose library function that might make the wrong assumption). _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WPDXKRGXDDLC4GOCFW3OIHTPHOM7KJMZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
