Comment by mywittyname

Oh I agree, but a person who won't take the time to update documentation after a significant change, certainly isn't going to refactor the code such that the method name matches the updated functionality. Assuming they can even update the name if they wanted to.

After all, documentation is cheap. If you're going to write a commit message, why not also update the function docs with pretty much the same thing? "Filename parameter will now use S3 if an appropriate URI is passed (i., filename='s3://bucket/object/path.txt'). Note: doesn't work with path-style URLs."