14 Mar
2009
14 Mar
'09
1:56 a.m.
Here's a simple one I've reinvented in my own apps often enough that it might be worth adding to the built-in split() method: s.split(sep[, maxsplit[, pad]]) pad, if set True, would pad out the returned list with empty strings (strs/unicodes depending on returned datatype) so that the list was always (maxsplit+1) elements long. This allows one to do things like unpacking assignments: user, hostname= address.split('@', 1, True) without having to worry about exceptions when the number of ‘sep’s in the string is unexpectedly fewer than ‘maxsplit’. -- And Clover mailto:and@doxdesk.com http://www.doxdesk.com/