Sorry for wasting your brain power - I just read through some of my code and realised how stupid an idea it really was... I haven't even got the excuse of being remotely new to the language (or programming in general come to think of it) lesson(self): dont_post_at_end_of_day_without(thinking_a_lot_first) sorrly-mistaken-and-embarrassed Matt 2008/12/11 Bruce Leban <bruce@leapyear.org>
I think splitting an empty string is more like dividing zero in half. No one expects that to raise a value exception.
--- Bruce
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>wrote:
It seems to me like spliting an empty string is something that makes
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matthew Russell <matt.horizon5@gmail.com> wrote: little
sense to do, similar to dividing by zero in terms of an analogy.
I guess you have never had the need. Let me assure you that you are mistaken. :-)
How about str.split, partition and friends just raise ValueError exception when the value is the empty string?
Absolutely not.
Regards, Matt
2008/12/11 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:18 AM, <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
If anything it's wrong, it's that they share the same name. This wasn't always the case. Do you really want to go back to .split() and .splitfields(sep)?
I hope not. I consider the current situation to be a definite improvement. I sometimes forgot which was which.
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