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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu Mar 8 07:51:18 CET 2007

Andrew Bennetts <andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org> wrote:

Josiah Carlson wrote: [...] > > Offer a new splitext that uses X on posix and Y on win32, but causes a > DeprecationWarning with pointers to the two renamed functions that are > available on both platforms. > > For people who want the old platform-specific functionality in previous > and subsequent Pythons, offer the ability to disable the > DeprecationWarning via a module global; at least until the function is > removed in some future Python, at which point path.splitext would cause > an AttributeError . It's not about cross-platform behaviour. It's already the same: >>> import posixpath, ntpath >>> ntpath.splitext('.cshrc') ('', '.cshrc') >>> posixpath.splitext('.cshrc') ('', '.cshrc') And as I understand it, the current proposal would change this behaviour the same way on win32 and POSIX, although I may not have kept up with that part of the discussion enough. Is there a genuine desire for this to behave differently on different platforms?

Ahh, I thought that it was different on different platforms. Nevermind then. Add a new function and be done with it.

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