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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3562 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20070320/94e076cf/attachment-0001.bin
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