Mike Orr wrote:
> I have no idea why Microsoft thought it was a good idea to
> put the seven-odd device files in every directory. Why not force
> people to type the colon ("CON:").Yes, this is a particularly stupid piece of braindamage on the part of the designers of MS-DOS. As far as I remember, even CP/M (which was itself a severely warped and twisted version of RT11) had the good sense to put colons on the end of such things. But maybe "design" is too strong a word to apply to MS-DOS... Anyhow, I think I agree that there's really nothing a path library can do about this. Whatever it tries to do, the fact will remain that it's impossible to have a regular file called "con", and users will have to live with that. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
