> ISTM this is just begging for newbie (and maybe not-so-newbie) > confusion. Why not just document both as returning (left, sep, > right) which seems the most obvious description of what the methods > return?
I'm fine with that (though it's a little sad that we think the rather basic concepts of head and tail are beyond the grasp of typical pythonistas). Changing to left/sep/right will certainly disambiguate questions about the ordering of the return tuple. OTOH, there is some small loss in that the head/tail terminology is highly suggestive of how to use the function when making succesive partitions. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com