David Mertz mertz at gnosis.cx
Tue Oct 20 21:32:34 EDT 2015

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DOS Python programmers probably can't use `concurrent` or
`multiprocessing`. ☺
On Oct 20, 2015 6:26 PM, "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#names-to-avoid
>
> *"Since module names are mapped to file names, and some file systems are
> case insensitive and truncate long names, it is important that module names
> be chosen to be fairly short -- this won't be a problem on Unix, but it may
> be a problem when the code is transported to older Mac or Windows versions,
> or DOS."*
>
> There haven't been computers with less than 80 character file or path name
> element length limits in wide use in decades... ;)
>
> -gps
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