[Python-Dev] Proof of the pudding: str.partition()

Wed Aug 31 18:51:17 CEST 2005

<skip at pobox.com> wrote in message 
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>> >> You can do both: make partition() return a sequence with 
> attributes,
> >> similar to os.stat(). However, I would call the attributes 
> "before",
> >> "sep", and "after".
>> Terry> One could see that as a special-case back-compatibility kludge
> Terry> that maybe should disappear in 3.0.
>> Back compatibility with what?

os.stat without attributes. 'that' referred to its current 'sequence with 
attributes' return.
> I'm -1 on the notion of generating groups or attributes.

We agree. A back-compatibility kludge is not a precedent to be emulated.
>In the case of stat() there is no reason other than historic
> for the results to be returned in any particular order,

Which is why I wonder whether the sequence part should be dropped in 3.0.
Terry J. Reedy