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

glyph at divmod.com glyph at divmod.com
Fri Mar 16 22:53:21 CET 2007

On 15 Mar, 11:34 pm, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

glyph at divmod.com schrieb:

However, the decision was a bad one regardless of the existing policy, and sets a bad precedent while we are discussing this policy. I could be wrong, but I think it would be reasonable to assume that if Martin strongly supports such a change, Martin would oppose a policy which would strictly forbid such changes, and it is just such a policy that Python needs. I still can't guess what policy you have in mind, so I can't object to it :-) I may accept a policy that rejects this change, but allows another change to fix the problem. I would oppose a policy that causes this bug to be unfixable forever.

Well, there's also the fact that I strongly disagree that this is a bug, but I don't know that I could codify that in a policy. Hence the parallel discussion.

However, I do apologize for obliquely referring to this thing I'm working on without showing a work in progress. It's just that different parts of the policy will rely on each other, and I don't want to get bogged down talking about individual details which will be dealt with in the final rev. That, and I am trying to integrate feedback from the ongoing discussion... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20070316/22ef4090/attachment.htm

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