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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Mar 16 13:31:20 CET 2007

Phillip J. Eby schrieb:

Some other options:

1. Deprecate splitext() and remove it in 3.0

How would that help the problem? Isn't it useful to have a function that strips off the extension?

2. Add an optional flag argument to enable the new behavior

How would that help backwards compatibility?

3. Create a new function with the new behavior (as you proposed the last time there was a patch submitted for this)

What to do with the old function in this case?

Martin