On 3 May 2013 20:40, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2 April 2013 01:47, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This PEP proposes to fix these problems by re-publicising the feature, >> defining the .pyz and .pyzw extensions as “Python ZIP Applications” >> and “Windowed Python ZIP Applications”, and providing some simple >> tooling to manage the format. > > > There is a bug in Windows Powershell, which is apparently due to a bug in the underlying FindExecutable API, that can fail to recognise extensions which are longer than 3 characters properly. > > Rather than risk obscure bugs, I would suggest restricting the extensions to 3 characters. For the “Windowed Python ZIP Applications” case, could we use .pzw as the extension instead of .pyzw? > > Please don't shoot the messenger here - I'm not going to try to defend such a stupid Windows bug, but better to be safe in my view. Flames about Windows to /dev/null...
I'm OK with the shortened extension. Cheers, Nick. > > Paul. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ncoghlan%40gmail.com >
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