Ludvig Ericson wrote:

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From: Ludvig Ericson Or even

… = partial.skip split_one = partial(str.split, …, 1)

That won't work:

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... = 1 File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to Ellipsis

Like None/True/False, "..." is a constant that can't be modified (you can assign to the *name* Ellipsis, but the "..." syntax will always refer to the specific object). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

Ludvig Ericson wrote:

Well, I was trying to be funny and was under the impression that Python 3.0 had Unicode identifiers, but apparently it doesn't. (I used …, not ...)

It does, but they may not contain characters of the category "Punctuation, other":

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import unicodedata unicodedata.category("…") 'Po'

- Hagen