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Re: about special characters

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: about special characters
Date 2016-04-29 22:37 -0400
Message-ID <mailman.250.1461983867.32212.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On 4/29/2016 9:48 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>> (There has never been a Python 27. I assume Python 2.7 is what you
>>> meant.)
>>
>> I believe that Python X.Y shows up as "PythonXY" under Windows.

As a directory name that also omits the space, yes. Start Menu entries 
have both the space and and the '.'.

> Then that's a bug which should be fixed, IMO. An MS Windows user (i.e.,
> not me) would be well placed to describe the behaviour in a bug report.

I disagree.  .0, .1, etc, would look like extensions, but are not.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: about special characters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-30 09:52 +1000
  Re: about special characters Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-30 10:56 +1000
    Re: about special characters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-30 11:48 +1000
    Re: about special characters eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 21:35 -0500
    Re: about special characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-04-29 22:37 -0400
    Re: about special characters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-30 12:43 +1000
    Re: about special characters MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-04-30 03:53 +0100

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