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

Shane Hathaway wrote:

Ron Adam wrote:

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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

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".

+0 I thought the same thing. I don't see a lot of use cases for it, but it could be useful. I don't see how it could hurt. Tim Delaney