split() off last substring

[Max M]

Noah wrote:

> Can I tell split() to split off the LAST seqment? I guess I want
> something like:
> 
> 	a="aaa.bbb.ccc"
> 	b,c=a.rsplit(1)
> 	print b,c
> 	# "aaa.bbb", "ccc"
> 

It would be esier to just::


 >>> hmm = "aaa.bbb.ccc"
 >>> hmm[hmm.rfind('.')+1:]
'ccc'


regards Max M