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In article 
<CAKJdEYC0GvEMeMx12rPk173nzyTabSTgkpBByoLRmpcpf8eXzg@mail.gmail.com>,
 vaira muthu <vaira20ster@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Python IDE, while we save the script, it will prompt the save
> Dialog. If we specify the filename as "Test". Then file will be saved
> without extension as "Test" and not "Test.py".
> 
> Is it possible to save the script with .py extension automatically (as 
> Test.py)?

If the IDE you are referring to is IDLE, there is an issue recently 
opened that requests this change:
    http://bugs.python.org/issue10364

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org