Re: [Python-ideas] Allowing negative `maxsplit` in `str.split`

17 May 2010


      On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 14:18, cool-RR  wrote:
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Chris Rebert  wrote:
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:07 PM, cool-RR  wrote:
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Here's something that I would want now: An ability to give a negative
`maxsplit` argument to `str.split`, to make it start splitting from the
end
of the string.
For example, right now I wanted to be able to separate a module's name
'hello.world.meow' to ['hello.world', 'meow'] without knowing how many
dots
would be in the name. If I could give a `maxsplit` of -1 to achieve
this, it
would be nice.
What do you think?
What's wrong with 'hello.world.meow'.rsplit(maxsplit=1) ?
Cheers,
Chris
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-Brett

Re: [Python-ideas] Allowing negative `maxsplit` in `str.split`

Brett Cannon