python.exe on Mac OS X!?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Rodney> I did a source code build of Python 2.4.1 on OS X (10.3.8) and
    Rodney> the executable produced was 'python.exe'. Can someone tell me
    Rodney> whether this is a bug, feature, or UserError?

The default file system on MacOSX is case insensitive.  As a result the .exe
extension is required to disambiguate the generated executable from the
Python directory in the source distro.

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