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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 11:34:36 CET 2007

On 16/03/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

What's actually under dispute here is whether it's acceptable to classify this perfectly useful-as-is behavior, that was documented and tested in released versions of Python for several years (with patches to change its behavior explicitly rejected in the past), as a "bug".

Just to put this into context, the word "bug" is probably not the best to use here. The orignal behaviour was described as a bug, certainly, but that's not how the change has been treated. If the behaviour was being deemed a "bug", it would be acceptable in a "bugfix" release (ie. 2.5.1). No-one is advocating that.

Rather, the change is being treated as a behaviour change (which it is) and submitted for a feature release (2.6). Whether the behaviour change is good, reasonable, acceptable - that's the question here. (And one on which I don't have an opinion!)

Paul

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