difficulty in understanding rsplit(None,1)[1]

[hrishy]

Hi Martin

Many thanks 
And by the way great way to explain that thing

--- On Tue, 22/9/09, Martin P. Hellwig <martin.hellwig at dcuktec.org> wrote:

> From: Martin P. Hellwig <martin.hellwig at dcuktec.org>
> Subject: Re: difficulty in understanding rsplit(None,1)[1]
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Tuesday, 22 September, 2009, 9:52 AM
> hrishy wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > What does rsplit(None,1)[1] accomplish.
> > 
> > Can somebody please decompose that to me.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> Sure:
> 
> >>> test = 'This is a test'
> >>> help(test.rsplit)
> Help on built-in function rsplit:
> 
> rsplit(...)
>     S.rsplit([sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of
> strings
> 
>     Return a list of the words in the string S,
> using sep as the
>     delimiter string, starting at the end of the
> string and working
>     to the front.  If maxsplit is given, at
> most maxsplit splits are
>     done. If sep is not specified or is None, any
> whitespace string
>     is a separator.
> 
> >>> step_two = test.rsplit(None, 1)
> >>> step_two
> ['This is a', 'test']
> >>>
> >>> step_two[1]
> 'test'
> >>>
> 
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