R. David Murray added the comment:
Oh, it would definitely be a backward compatibility issue. Imagine code that
does a dirname and branches like this:
d = dirname(somepath)
if d:
else:
Or to give a more concrete example:
path = fn if dirname(fn) else os.path.join
New submission from Jonas Eriksson:
Only tested on marked python versions. Checked the code in hg (a5681f50bae2)
and did not see anything related to this in the current development version.
Essentially, what I see is this:
>>> os.path.dirname("asdf")
''
>>> os.path.dirname("./asdf")
'.'
>>>
W
