On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:13 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12:38 PM 3/11/2010 +0530, Baiju M wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Baiju M <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If "_" is a valid project_name identifier, why it is replaces with "-" ? > > In order to have a canonicalized name form which can be escaped in filenames > for unambiguous identification of an egg's project and version. > > Egg filenames use '-' as a separator between name, version, python version, > and platform. A '-' in any of these components is escaped as '_', so that > the '-' remains a viable and unambiguous separator. This means that '_' > gets turned back into a '-' when unescaped, so the mapping between '_' and > '-' is part of the safe_name canonical form.
Sorry, I confused. Then, why "_" was added as a valid project name identifier ? Regards, Baiju M _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
