> For about the 1,000,000th time in my life (no exaggeration :-), I just > typed "python.exe foo" - I forgot the .py. > > It would seem a simple and useful change to append a ".py" extension and > try-again, instead of dieing the first time around - ie, all we would be > changing is that we continue to run where we previously failed. > > Is there a good reason why we dont do this? Just inertia, plus it's "not the Unix way". I agree it's a good idea. (I also found in user testsing that IDLE definitely has to supply the ".py" when saving a module if the user didn't.) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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