Even thumb drives use VFAT. Yes it's an ugly hack, but the names aren't limited to 8.3. On Oct 20, 2015 6:59 PM, "Ben Finney" <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "Gregory P. Smith" <g...@krypto.org> writes: > > > There haven't been computers with less than 80 character file or path > > name element length limits in wide use in decades... ;) > > Not true, your computer will happily mount severely-limited filesystems. > Indeed, I'd wager it has done so many times this year. > > It is *filesystems* that limit the length of filesystem entries, and the > FAT filesystem is still in very widespread use — on devices mounted by > the computers you use today. > > Yes, we have much better filesystems today, and your primary desktop > computer will almost certainly use something better than FAT for its > primary storage's filesystem. > > That does not mean Python programmers should assume your computer will > never mount a FAT filesystem (think small flash storage), nor that a > program you run will never need to load Python modules from that > filesystem. > > > You'd like FAT to go away forever? Great, me too. Now we need to > convince all the vendors of every small storage device – USB thumb > drives, network routers, all manner of single-purpose devices – to use > modern filesystems instead. > > Then, maybe after another human generation has come and gone, we can > finally expect every filesystem, in every active device that might run > any Python code, to be using something with a reasonably-large limit for > filesystem entries. > > Until then, the advice in PEP 8 to keep module names short is reasonable. > > -- > \ “The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in | > `\ the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” | > _o__) —Henry L. Mencken | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/mertz%40gnosis.cx >
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