[Python-ideas] Allowing negative `maxsplit` in `str.split`

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:07 PM, cool-RR <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
> Here's something that I would want now: An ability to give a negative
> `maxsplit` argument to `str.split`, to make it start splitting from the end
> of the string.
> For example, right now I wanted to be able to separate a module's name
> 'hello.world.meow' to ['hello.world', 'meow'] without knowing how many dots
> would be in the name. If I could give a `maxsplit` of -1 to achieve this, it
> would be nice.
> What do you think?

What's wrong with 'hello.world.meow'.rsplit(maxsplit=1) ?

Cheers,
Chris
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