[Python-Dev] "funny".split("")

[Christian Tismer]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

> Christian> Eeeeehhh!
> Christian> That sounds very good.
> Christian> It can make me unconvinced again, of course.
> Christian> Split can never return the separator,
> Christian> that makes the number of possible answers
> Christian> not only finite, but unique!
> 
> Also, note that it does allow for empty elements in the result,
> provided that the separator is not empty:
> 
>     >>> "a//b".split("/")
>     ['a', '', 'b']


Sure. The single rule "split whenever you can, but don't
return the separator" make this operation closed.
Although split and join can never be true friends,
since they aren't real counterparts:
join() does accept strings which contain the concatenator.

Maybe somebody will use this to kill the argument.

maybe-somebody-with-a-<wink>-ly y'rs - chris

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