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

Ron Adam rrr at ronadam.com
Tue Sep 5 20:58:30 CEST 2006


Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> Another thought is that strings don't really have a left and right.  
> They have a beginning and end.  The left/right or top/bottom distinction 
> is culture specific.

Well, it should have been epartition() and not rpartition() in that case.   ;-)

Is python ever edited in languages that don't use left to right lines?




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