[Python-Dev] Fwd: Problem withthe API for str.rpartition()

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 5, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

>> Then shouldn't rpartition be S.rpartition(sep) -> (rest, sep, tail)
>
> Gads, the cure is worse than the disease.
>
> car and cdr are starting to look pretty good ;-)

LOL, the lisper in me likes that too, but I don't think it'll work. :)

Fred's disagreement notwithstanding, I still like (left, sep, right),  
but another alternative comes to mind after actually reading the  
docstring for rpartition <wink>: (before, sep, after).  Now, that's  
not ambiguous is it?  Seems to work for both partition and rpartition.

- -Barry

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