Rustom Mody wrote: > 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
I blame the confirmation bias of social media for the current state of dissed-discourse we find ourselves in these days. > > [Rick Johnson wrote] > > 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 But this suggestion misses my point entirely. And the point is, we shouldn't have to pick-up the "box" (aka: file) and shake it (ook-ook) just to "intuit" what is inside. Using file extentions (aka: labels) solves this semantical problem much more elegantly. Now, is a perfect solution? Of course not! However, it is the most practical solution. > 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 And although an automated "intuitor" could easily determine if a file contained a markup language, we would still be force to "shake the box" by running it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list