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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Mar 15 21:24:25 CET 2007

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote in message news:5.1.1.6.0.20070315105608.02ba5f58 at sparrow.telecommunity.com...

The process of having warnings at least ensures that I can discover whether my programs depend on some behavior that has changed - rather than > having something that used to work and now doesn't.

I am not familiar with the warning system, but it seems plausible that one could add to the end of .splitext (before it returns) an optional warning something like

if not ext and base[0] == '.': warn("Before 2.6, this would have returned (%s,%s) instead of (%s,%s)" % (ext, base, base, ext))

where base and ext have the obvious contents. Is this what you want?

Terry Jan Reedy

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