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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Mar 8 20:16:33 CET 2007

At 11:53 AM 3/8/2007 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

That assumes there is a need for the old functionality. I really don't see it (pje claimed he needed it once, but I remain unconvinced, not having seen an actual fragment where the old behavior is helpful).

The code in question was a type association handler that looked up loader functions based on file extension. This was specifically convenient for recognizing the difference between .htaccess files and other dotfiles that might appear in a web directory tree -- e.g. .htpasswd. The proposed change of splitext() would break that determination, because .htpasswd and .htaccess would both be considered files with empty extensions, and would be handled by the "empty extension" handler.

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