Good, we have gotten around to discussing a little annoyance I've
noticed. I think this should behave similar to the way a Unix admin who
is familiar with basename(1) would behave:
$ basename -s .py
/tmp/foo.py
foo
$
$ basename /tmp/foo.py .py
foo
$ basename /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py
foo.py
$ basename -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py
foo.py
fffff.py
$ basename -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py .py
foo.py
fffff.py
.py
$ basename -s .py -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py .py
foo
fffff
.py
$ basename -s .py -a /tmp/foo.py /tmp/fffff.py
foo
fffff
$
Changing the function name shouldn't be the solution, imho. Changing
the arguments, however, should be.
Compare the documentation yourself:
----- MANPAGE DOCUMENTATION
NAME
basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of
pathname
SYNOPSIS
basename string
[suffix]
basename [-a] [-s suffix] string
[...]
dirname
string
-----
----- PYTHON DOCUMENTATION:
Help on function basename in module
posixpath:
basename(p)
Returns the final component of a
pathname
-----
Greg Ewing wrote:
Michael Urman wrote:
Who would rather see os.path.dropext(path)?
I'd like to see such a function, and also
maybe replaceext(path, new_ext). I often
end up coding things like these myself,
since indexing the result of splitext all
the time is rather ugly.
To round off the set, I suggest
path.dropext(path) # returns the base name
path.getext(path) # returns the extension
path.replaceext(path, newext) # adds or replaces the extension
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