New submission from Shaun Griffith <[email protected]>:
As with many entries on the os.path doc page, splitext needs a typical example.
Not grokking the bare minimum text, I had to actually try it in the interpreter
to see what it did.
The one example that *is* there is an edge case, and does nothing to explain
the normal behavior, or why this is the correct behavior for the edge case.
Here is where I tripped up:
Split the pathname path into a pair (root, ext) such that root + ext == path,
and ext is empty or begins with a period and contains at most one period.
One interpretation of this is that ext is either empty, or has a period, _and
nothing else_.
Here are 2 examples for typical use:
>>> splitext('readme.txt')
('readme', '.txt')
>>> splitext('/some/long/pathname/warble.csv')
('/some/long/pathname/warble', '.csv')
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 329414
nosy: docs@python, shaungriffith
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.path.splitext documentation needs typical example
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6
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