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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:54 PM 8/30/2005 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> >>both split on a given token.  partition splits once, and returns all three
> >>parts, while piece returns the part you ask for
> >
> > No, because looking at that URL, there is no piece that is the token split
> > on.  partition() always returns 3 parts for 1 occurrence of the token,
> > whereas $PIECE only has 2.
>
>so "absolutely nothing in common" has now turned into "does the
>same thing but doesn't return the value you passed to it" ?

$PIECE returns exactly one value.  partition returns exactly 3.  partition 
always returns the separator as one of the three values.  $PIECE never 
does.  How many more differences does it have to have before you consider 
them to be nothing alike?


>sorry for wasting my time.

And sorry for you being either illiterate or humor-impaired, to have missed 
the smiley on the sentence that said "absolutely nothing in common except 
having string arguments".  You quoted it in your first reply, so it's not 
like it didn't make it into your email client.