PyWart: os.path needs immediate attention!

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, rantingrick wrote:

>   * Introduce a new method named "partition" which (along with string
> splitting methods) will replace the six methods "basename", "dirname",
> "split", "splitdrive", "splitunc", "splittext". The method will return
> a tuple of the path split into four parts: (drive, path, filename,
> extension).

A named tuple would be an even better return, so one could refer to the 
parts as t.drive, etc.