Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote in message
> news:5.1.1.6.0.20070306104954.028deec0 at sparrow.telecommunity.com...
>> I consider it correct, or at the least, don't think it should be changed,
>> as it would make the behavior more difficult to reason about and introduce
>> yet another thing to worry about when writing cross-version code.
>
> Windows did not allow .xxx as a filename in my attempts, so this case seems
> irrelevant there.
Windows is a bit funny there. You can't create a ".xxx" filename
in Explorer, but you can from Console/the API:
<code>
import os
f = open (".xxx", "w")
f.close ()
os.path.isfile (".xxx")
# True
</code>
Not that this helps anything, really, but just
to make the point :)
TJG
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