[Python-Dev] splitext('.cshrc')

[Josiah Carlson]

Andrew Bennetts <andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org> wrote:
> 
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > Offer a new splitext that uses X on posix and Y on win32, but causes a
> > DeprecationWarning with pointers to the two renamed functions that are
> > available on both platforms.
> > 
> > For people who want the old platform-specific functionality in previous
> > and subsequent Pythons, offer the ability to disable the
> > DeprecationWarning via a module global; at least until the function is
> > removed in some future Python, at which point path.splitext would cause
> > an AttributeError .
> 
> It's not about cross-platform behaviour.  It's already the same:
> 
> >>> import posixpath, ntpath
> >>> ntpath.splitext('.cshrc')
> ('', '.cshrc')
> >>> posixpath.splitext('.cshrc')
> ('', '.cshrc')
> 
> And as I understand it, the current proposal would change this behaviour the
> same way on win32 and POSIX, although I may not have kept up with that part of
> the discussion enough.  Is there a genuine desire for this to behave differently
> on different platforms?

Ahh, I thought that it was different on different platforms.  Nevermind
then.  Add a new function and be done with it.

 - Josiah