On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:24, Michael Chermside wrote: > How about something like this: > > S.partition(sep) -> (head, sep, tail) > S.rpartition(sep) -> (tail, sep, rest)
I think I prefer: S.partition(sep) -> (head, sep, rest) S.rpartition(sep) -> (tail, sep, rest) Here, "rest" is always used for "what remains"; head/tail are somewhat more clear here I think. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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