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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-08-19 23:00:50 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-08-19 23:00:50 (GMT)
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Document actual behavior of splitext().
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@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ slashes separating \var{head} from \var{tail}).
\begin{funcdesc}{splitext}{p}
Split the pathname \var{p} in a pair \code{(\var{root}, \var{ext})}
such that \code{\var{root} + \var{ext} == \var{p}},
-the last component of \var{root} contains no periods,
-and \var{ext} is empty or begins with a period.
+and \var{ext} is empty or begins with a period and contains
+at most one period.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{walk}{p\, visit\, arg}