"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That may actually be a genuinely useful approach:
splitext(name, ignore_leading_dot=False, all_ext=False) Split the extension from a pathname. Returns "(root, ext)". By default, the extension is all characters from the last dot to the end of the string. "ext" will be empty if there are no dots in the name and "root" will be empty if the characters starts with a single dot and that is the only dot in the name. If ignore_leading_dot=True, then a leading dot is always considered part of "root", and is ignored when determining the extension. "root" will never be empty in this case. If all_ext=True, the extension is all characters from the first dot to the end. ===================================== 'first dot' => 'first non-ignored dot' in case both options are true. In the long run (in 3.0), I think ignore_leading_dot should default to True rather than False since I think that is what more people will want. However, I believe the 2-to-3 converter could remove 'ignore_leading_dot=True' and insert 'ignore_leading_dot=False' as needed. Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
