Phillip J. Eby schrieb: > At 08:57 AM 3/9/2007 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> In the case that triggered the discussion, the change implemented >> was not an incompatible change, because the new implementation still >> met the old specification (which, of course, was underspecified). > > No, it wasn't, actually. Read the doc strings, which state exactly what > the code does.
The doc strings were precise, yes. The documentation (Doc/lib) was underspecified and allowed for both interpretations: splitext(path) 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. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com