[Python-Dev] partition() (was: Remove str.find in 3.0?)

[Pierre Barbier de Reuille]

Shane Hathaway a écrit :
> Eric Nieuwland wrote:
> 
>> Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
>>
>>> Or you want to have some "partition" method which accept regular
>>> expressions:
>>>
>>> head, sep, tail = some_str.partition(re.compile(sep+'.'*offset))
>>
>>
>>
>> Neat!
>> +1 on regexps as an argument to partition().
> 
> 
> Are you sure?  I would instead expect to find a .partition method on a
> regexp object:
> 
>   head, sep, tail = re.compile(sep+'.'*offset).partition(some_str)

Well, to be consistent with current re module, it would be better to
follow Antoine's suggestion :

head, sep, tail = re.partition(re.compile(sep+'.'*offset), some_str)

Pierre

> 
> Shane
> 

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