[Python-Dev] Policy Decisions, Judgment Calls, and Backwards Compatibility (was Re: splitext('.cshrc')) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Mar 10 01:36:16 CET 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

splitext(path) Split the pathname path into a pair (root, ext) such that root + ext == path, and ext is empty or begins with a period and contains at most one period.

Actually, that spec could be satisfied by a function that always returned an empty string for ext...

-- Greg



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