On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > > [...] > >> Whether there was nothing wrong in what I did, the "wrong- >> right" was de facto, or de jure… 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. > > And it's not like we can just pick file up and shake > it, in a crude attempt to intuit the contents.
No, but fortunately we have magic. And magic can tell us a lot about what a file contains. man 5 magic ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
