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

Mike Krell mbk.lists at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 21:47:48 CET 2007

On 3/15/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Can you show us the relevant fragment of your code?

Sure:

for f in files:
    try:
        (root, ext) = os.path.splitext(f)
        os.rename(f, '%s.%s%s' % (root, index, ext))
    except OSError:
        die('renaming %s failed' % f)

Background:

This is a little utility that runs on windows that archives arbitrary files. index is an integer. For index == 1, I want "a.txt" to be renamed to "a.1.txt", and I want ".emacs" to be renamed to ".1.emacs", thus preserving the extensions. Under the new patch, the second file would be renamed to ".emacs.1", gratuitously breaking the extension preservation.

Mike

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