[Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change)

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 20 Mar, 2007, at 19:24, Phillip J. Eby wrote:


>>
>> What I don't understand is why 'ignore_leading_dot==False' is
>> considered to be a valid usecase at all, except for the fact that
>> os.path.splitext did this until py2.5. I'm definitely in the camp
>> that considers '.profile' not to have an extension.
>
>
> Okay, the part I'm confused about is what's your position on what  
> should be *done* about this.  Are you favoring no change?   
> Deprecating it and ripping it out?  Or what?
>

os.path.splitext works fine for what it is supposed to do, even  
though there currently is some confusion on what that is. IMHO the  
change Martin checked in into 2.6 was a good one and makes that API  
as good as it can get without unduly cluttering the API.

Ronald

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