>> That doesn't really explain it. It always was os.path.extsep, >> but it *also* was os.extsep. > > I've always known it as the former
Same here, but see below. > a perusal of the Python repository > would probably indicate when it became exposed in the os module > itself. That's indeed easier to answer than finding out when it was removed for 3k, and by whom. It was provided in its current form with r31426 | montanaro | 2003-02-14 20:35:31 +0100 (Fr, 14. Feb 2003) | 3 lines Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables into the relevant path modules. See patch #686397. So they were migrated *into* the specific modules in 2003. Before, they were all conditionally defined based on the platform, in os.py itself. So I must be misremembering - in 2.2 and earlier, they were only in the os module. So it was *not* always os.path.extsep. Perhaps this gives the rationale for the change - migration into the platform modules is now complete. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
