Duncan Booth wrote: >Did you download the file using Firefox? It seems to have a 'feature' that >when you download a file and there is already a file of the same name it >finds the first number in the filename and increments it. > > > Yes, isn't that fun? This has been a known problem with a bug filed for well over a year. Perhaps closer to a year and a half. Not that the bug has been simply ignored. It has been hashed and rehashed over and over. Someone proposes a solution. Firefox devs come back and say that the solution will not work in some corner case on Windows. Someone proposes a solution. Firefox devs come back and say that it will adversely affect some Linux users. Someone proposes a solution. Firefox devs come back and say that certain MacOS users could experience a problem with that. Someone proposes that in the case that there is a filename collision, the user might simply be prompted to decide on a filename. Firefox devs totally reject that idea (and rather vehemently). You see, that would totally freak out the end user, and that is *certainly* not a good solution.
So the interim solution, for over a year, has been to leave it broken for everyone... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
