Sept. 21, 2005
8:15 p.m.
"Christian Stork" <python-dev-list@cstork.org> wrote in message news:20050921185601.GA22265@anthony.ics.uci.edu...
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:49:26PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
A more descriptive name than 'partition' would be 'split_at'.
'split_at' is really what's happening. (I came up with it independently of Greg, if that is any evidence).
At least semi-seriously, how about condensing 'split_at' to 'splat', a variant of split (and splash), as in 'hit the string on the separator, and with a splat, split it into 3 pieces'. (See dictionary.com for various meanings.) Terry J. Reedy