small string split prob

[Bengt Richter]

On Sun, 12 May 2002 21:53:00 +0100, "ian" <iwaters at btclick.com> wrote:

>hi im having trouble splitting a string any help would be great!!
>The RCPTTO contains a line read from a socket.
>when i try to split an e-mail address into the box and domain sub parts i
>get a type error on index!?
>
>#split e-mail address
>index = RCPTTO.find("@")
>box = RCPTTO[0,index]
>domain = RCPTTO[index + 1,RCPTTO.len()]
>
>print box
>print domain
>
What am I missing? "... _split_ an e-mail address..."
is so suggestive of .split ;-)

 >>> RCPTTO = 'boxname at some.domain.com'
 >>> box,domain = RCPTTO.split('@',1)
 >>> print box
 boxname
 >>> print domain
 some.domain.com

Regards,
Bengt Richter