Simply Jonathan

Python file names

As I was curious, I today tested whether you can use a dash in a file name with Python — or, more specifically, if you can use that file as a module afterwards. You cannot. So don’t name your files with dashes.

(This might be in a manual somewhere, but I hadn’t seen it explicitly mentioned. Maybe it’s just common sense since you can’t name your variables that way either, I don’t know)

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