3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Martin> In any case - if the intention was that extsep is now not
>     Martin> supported anymore, it should have been removed from the other
>     Martin> *path modules as well (along with removing it from the
>     Martin> documentation).
> 
> No, that wasn't my intent.  I was speculating that os.extsep turned up in
> Python when RISCOS support was added.  At the time I removed support I
> wasn't thinking in terms of getting rid of that attribute.

I don't quite understand. Yes, the variable was added when RISCOS
support was introduced. So when RISCOS support is removed, it seems
natural to remove the variable also. You chose not to - so why did you
then remove it from the os module?

Regards,
Martin