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

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Tue Mar 20 09:24:43 CET 2007

On 16 Mar, 2007, at 23:37, Stephen Hansen wrote:

That may actually be a genuinely useful approach: splitext(name, ignoreleadingdot=False, allext=False) ... that's perfect. I updated my patch to do it that way! :)

I don't agree. "all_ext=True" is won't do the right thing in a
significant subset of filenames::

    archiveType = os.path.splitext(sourceArchive, all_ext=True)

This won't do what you'd want with most source distributions on the
internet (product-X.Y.Z.tar.gz).

The ignore_leading_dot argument seems to be there to keep everyone
happy and furthermore is an argument that will be passed a constant
value in the majority of usecases (I'd say all uses, but that's just
asking for someone to come up with a lame counterexample). The
ignore_leading_dot argument also doesn't buy you anything that can't
trivially be implemented in other ways.

Ronald

--S

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