Object save method is inserting extra "." in filename

[rbyh]

https://www.expectedparrot.com/content/5a22112b-80ef-4a47-873a-e27ccee55d7b

[johnjosephhorton]

Ah - so I think what I had intended was that the user would save without the extension:

But it would work if they added the extension manually. But I don't think that's great (and obviously I'm screwing up the string).
A few thoughts:

1. It is good that "json.gz" tells you what it is (compressed json), but that makes it more complex and makes it hard for the user to remember. I wrote it and I couldn't remember.
2. We could save everything as "your_object.edsl" or "your_object.ep" which would me less clear what it is but more clear that it was something EP created
3. It would be good to have a "universal load" - maybe obj = edsl.load('my_thing.ep') and will get it right
4. It would nice if this all worked seamlessly with coop as a backup / alt location
5. It should probably work well w/o a name e.g., my_object.save() does something sensible like look through the directory is increments the object count as needed to store it as "my_object_2.ep`

[rbyh]

My preference would be to allow the user to drop or include the extension. I would not use something unexpected eg ".edsl".

[rbyh]

Method is also missing for Model (but not ModelList):

[johnjosephhorton]

Consider that if you save a word document, you aren't asked to remember it's "docx"

[johnjosephhorton]

re: Model - good catch. This is because Model is not actually a Base object - it's a like a cut-out for LanguageModel. I'll add this method!

[rbyh]

Exactly re docx