Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Fredrik Lundh]
it is, however, a bit worrying that you end up ignoring one or more of the values in about 50% of your examples...
It drops to about 25% when you skip the ones that don't care about the found/not-found field:
! _, sep, port = host.partition(':') ! head, sep, _ = path.rpartition('/') ! line, _, _ = line.partition(';') # strip ! pname, found, _ = pname.rpartition('.') ! line, _, _ = line.partition('#') ! filename, _, _ = filename.partition(chr(0))
I know it's been discussed in the past, but this makes me wonder about language support for "dummy" or "don't care" placeholders for tuple unpacking. Would the above cases benefit from that, or (as has been suggested in the past) should slicing be used instead? Original: _, sep, port = host.partition(':') head, sep, _ = path.rpartition('/') line, _, _ = line.partition(';') pname, found, _ = pname.rpartition('.') line, _, _ = line.partition('#') Slicing: sep, port = host.partition(':')[1:] head, sep = path.rpartition('/')[:2] line = line.partition(';')[0] pname, found = pname.rpartition('.')[:2] line = line.partition('#')[0] I think I like the original better, but can't use "_" in my code because it's used for internationalization. -- Benji York