Phillip J. Eby schrieb:
> Some other options:
> 
> 1. Deprecate splitext() and remove it in 3.0

How would that help the problem? Isn't it useful to have a function
that strips off the extension?

> 2. Add an optional flag argument to enable the new behavior

How would that help backwards compatibility?

> 3. Create a new function with the new behavior (as you proposed the last 
> time there was a patch submitted for this)

What to do with the old function in this case?

Martin

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