10 Nov
2009
10 Nov
'09
8:05 a.m.
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:53:30 +0100 Mogens Kjaer wrote:
The file command will verify that for you.
Are you sure?
Well, I guess not then. I assumed that "file" would treat a .py file as a text file. I don't do any programming with Python and haven't looked at it closely.
"file" tells me that a file that's created with Borland Turbo C (DOS) is "data", but a file of C source code that's created with Linux gedit is "ASCII C program text".
A text file that's created with the DOS "edit" command is "ASCII English text, with CRLF line terminators", and a text file that's created with Linux gedit is "ASCII text".
So file can tell the difference in pretty much every case except for a Python file. Which may be an oversight in the magic definitions.
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