-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 5, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote: > >> upto, sep, rest >> >> in whatever order they apply. >> > In the rpartition case, that would be (rest, sep, upto) which seems a > bit cryptic. > > We need some choice of words that clearly mean: > * the chopped-off snippet (guaranteed to not contain the separator) > * the separator if found > * the unchopped remainer of the string (which may contain a > separator). > > Of course, if a clear example is added, the choice of words becomes > much > less important. Ideally too, the terminology (and order) for partition and rpartition would be the same. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRP3bVXEjvBPtnXfVAQJSKwP9Ev3MPzum3kp4hNDJZyBmEShzPvL2WQv2 VThbxZX1MDfeDXupNwF22bFA5gF/9vZp3nToUqyAbOaPSd93hJSHOdeWdAhR2BdT EICkzBTGCtVkbqu3Ep1N/jb9GJUvgkgNAWtRZVuTWQtJc6AanV9ssTcF6F7ipc6p zgSWeAc0a3E= =W7LV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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