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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Mar 6 20:03:20 CET 2007


At 07:24 PM 3/6/2007 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

given a list of file names, classify them for display (the way the Windows explorer works, and similar file managers). They use MIME databases and the like, and if they are unix-ish, they probably reject the current splitext implementation already as incorrect, and have work-arounds.

I know I've written code like this that depends on the current behavior. It's useful to classify e.g. .svn directories or .*rc files by their "extension", so I'm honestly baffled by the idea of wanting to treat such files as not having an extension (as opposed to a possibly-unrecognized one).



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