[Python-Dev] splitext('.cshrc')

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Mar 6 22:28:28 CET 2007


At 02:55 PM 3/6/2007 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:

>"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote in message
>news:5.1.1.6.0.20070306104954.028deec0 at sparrow.telecommunity.com...
> >I consider it correct, or at the least, don't think it should be changed,
> >as it would make the behavior more difficult to reason about and introduce
> >yet another thing to worry about when writing cross-version code.
>
>Windows did not allow .xxx as a filename in my attempts, so this case seems
>irrelevant there.

Huh?  .xyz files work fine on Windows.



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