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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Mar 15 22:06:37 CET 2007

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:

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. So you would agree to the change if a warning was generated at run-time? Notice that there is already a warning there: the documentation clearly states that the behavior has changed, and, of course, Misc/NEWS lists it as changed behavior.

As a sidenote, this item should be included in the 2.6 "What's new"'s "porting" section.

Perhaps it would be a good "policy" to automatically list potentially breaking fixes there instead of rolling off that task to Andrew.

Georg

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