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

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Mar 6 16:19:29 CET 2007


On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:07:16PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

Oleg Broytmann schrieb: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:00:01PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: >>> Yes. In .pythonrc.py .pythonrc is the root, and .py is the extension. >> Ah, it would do that already: with multiple dots, the last one always >> provides the extension. > > Ah, sorry. I messed it with .split().

Ok - now I'm confused: do you consider this behavior (splitext('.pythonrc') == ('', '.pythonrc')) correct or not?

I messed this in the sense that I have ran .split('.pythonrc.py'), got ('', '.pythonrc.py') and thought there is a problem. .split() works fine. Even .splitext() works fine with multiple dots:

os.path.splitext("/bin/.pythonrc.py") ('/bin/.pythonrc', '.py')

but

os.path.splitext(".pythonrc") ('', '.pythonrc')

and I think it should be

('.pythonrc', '')

Oleg.

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