On 3/15/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... the majority of the people polled thought that it ought to be fixed.
Personally, I didn't respond to your "poll" because I didn't think this particular issue would come down to a silly head count of self-selecting responders. When I first needed to use splitext in my code, I tested the relevant corner case in question at the interactive prompt. I also read the docstring which explicitly documented the behavior. I then wrote my code accordingly. Knowing that this was well-defined and documented behavior and having followed this list during previous backward compatibility discussions, I "knew" that there was no way your proposed patch would make it into a minor release because many long-time active developers would rightfully point out that it gratuitously breaks code. In your radical departure from the common-sense approach to code-breaking changes that typically prevails here, you proved me wrong. So now I'm speaking up. FWIW, I agree completely with PJE's and glyph's remarks with respect to expectations of stability, especially in a minor release. Sorry, updating the NEWS file isn't good enough, because as has been amply demonstrated here, many people cannot be bothered to read the documentation. +10000 on reverting the patch and not punishing those users who bothered to the documentation or test the corner cases themselves. Mike _______________________________________________ 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