On 14 Mar, 05:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addition to the prior behavior being explicitly documented in the
function docstrings, r54204 shows that it was also *tested* as behaving
that way by test_macpath, test_ntpath, and test_posixpath. When
combined
with the explicit docstrings, this must be considered incontrovertible
proof that the previous behavior was either explicitly intended, or at
the
very least a known, expected, and *accepted* behavior.
I (obviously, I think) agree with all of that.
This backwards-incompatible change is therefore contrary to policy and
should be reverted, pending a proper transition plan for the change
(such
as introduction of an alternative API and deprecation of the existing
one.)
I hope that this is true, but *is* this "policy" documented as required
somewhere yet? I think it should be reverted regardless, and such a
policy instated if one does not exist, but it is my understanding at
this point that it is an informal consensus rather than a policy.
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