[Python-Dev] Three-char file extensions

[Scott Dial]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On 15/07/07, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> Also, it seems that memory sticks and USB thumb drives are
>> often formatted with FAT because that's the closest we have to a
>> universal file format.
> 
> I think they tend to use FAT32 (the ones I've seen do), which does
> support long filenames and more than 3 character extensions.
> 

In general, this is not true. FAT16 can address a 2GB device and I can 
think of at least one embedded system I am working with that does not 
support FAT32. If anything, at least .pyzip reduces to .pyz in 8dot3 
(whereas .py.z reduces to .z *yikes!*). However, I think it is still 
best practice to aim for 8dot3 naming.

-Scott

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