Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Ron Adam wrote:
For cases where single values are desired, attribues could work.
Slicing: line = line.partition(';').head line = line.partition('#').head
But it gets awkward as soon as you want more than one.
sep, port = host.partition(':').head, host.partition(':').sep
unless you go for the piece approach
host, port = host.piece(":", 1, 2)
(which, of course, is short for
host, port = host.piece(":").group(1, 2)
)
I'm not familiar with piece, but it occurred to me it might be useful to get attributes groups in some way. My first (passing) thought was to do... host, port = host.partition(':').(head, sep) Where that would be short calling a method to return them: host, port = host.partition(':').getattribs('head','sep') But with only three items, the '_' is in the category of "Looks kind of strange, but I can get used to it because it works well.". Cheers, Ron