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

Shane Geiger sgeiger at ncee.net
Thu Mar 15 06:57:06 CET 2007

Good, we have gotten around to discussing a little annoyance I've noticed. I think this should behave similar to the way a Unix admin who is familiar with basename(1) would behave:

$ basename -s .py /tmp/foo.py

foo

$

$ basename /tmp/foo.py .py foo $ basename /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py foo.py $ basename -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py foo.py fffff.py $ basename -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py .py foo.py fffff.py .py $ basename -s .py -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py .py foo fffff .py $ basename -s .py -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py
foo fffff $

Changing the function name shouldn't be the solution, imho. Changing the arguments, however, should be.

Compare the documentation yourself:

----- MANPAGE DOCUMENTATION

NAME 

 basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of

pathname

SYNOPSIS 

 basename string

[suffix] 

 basename [-a] [-s suffix] string

[...] 

 dirname

string

----- PYTHON DOCUMENTATION:

Help on function basename in module posixpath:

basename(p) 

Returns the final component of a

pathname

Greg Ewing wrote: > Michael Urman wrote: >>> Who would rather see os.path.dropext(path)? >>>> I'd like to see such a function, and also > maybe replaceext(path, newext). I often > end up coding things like these myself, > since indexing the result of splitext all > the time is rather ugly. >> To round off the set, I suggest >> path.dropext(path) # returns the base name > path.getext(path) # returns the extension > path.replaceext(path, newext) # adds or replaces the extension >> -- > Greg > _________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/sgeiger%40ncee.net >

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