[Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change) (original) (raw)

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Thu Mar 15 01:12:37 CET 2007

On 14 Mar, 05:08 pm, pje at telecommunity.com wrote:

In addition to the prior behavior being explicitly documented in the function docstrings, r54204 shows that it was also tested as behaving that way by testmacpath, testntpath, and testposixpath. When combined with the explicit docstrings, this must be considered incontrovertible proof that the previous behavior was either explicitly intended, or at the very least a known, expected, and accepted behavior.

I (obviously, I think) agree with all of that.

This backwards-incompatible change is therefore contrary to policy and should be reverted, pending a proper transition plan for the change (such as introduction of an alternative API and deprecation of the existing one.)

I hope that this is true, but is this "policy" documented as required somewhere yet? I think it should be reverted regardless, and such a policy instated if one does not exist, but it is my understanding at this point that it is an informal consensus rather than a policy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20070315/5bdb8aec/attachment.html

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