This thread is getting like a mini hologram of our current surreal time… If we can put aside who is right and wrong for a moment we see the more frightening spectacle that Repubs and democrats, Remainers and Brexiters and so on all over — by getting more and more shrill are not talking to each other but past each other
So… On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:45:32 AM UTC+5:30, Rick Johnson wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > > [...] > > > Whether there was nothing wrong in what I did, the "wrong- > > right" was de facto, or de jureâ | I will leave to more wise > > persons than myself > > A file with no extension (regardless of the OS or desktop enviroment that it > was created on), is like a sealed box with no label to indicate the contents. So to Rick: Not if you use something like file (magic) My (unschooled) estimate is it gets its detection right 80% of the time And to Chris and others who think file(magic) is a replacement for file-associations. Even assuming that magic works 100% : Say I have an html file. That means its ALSO a text file. So its equally legitimate to set defaults to use… - a plain text editor (of which there are hundreds) - to open it in browser of choice (also plural nowadays) - some sort of html composer - etc Which means we are beyond the nature of the file per se to the pattern of its usage Yeah… magic… in the category of mind-reading? sooth-saying? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list