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

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 14:18, cool-RR <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Chris Rebert <pyideas at rebertia.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> --
>> http://blog.rebertia.com
>
> What a noob I am, I didn't know that existed. Thanks Chris.


`dir(str)` is your friend.

-Brett