[Tutor] Type Error

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, fasal.waseem@cis.co.uk wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Does anybody know where I can get hold of the document for python version
> 1.5, as I have to use that version and I keep having errors, and I would be
> very grateful if some one check why am I getting this error.
> 
>  line=string.split(string.strip(line),maxsplit=1)
> TypeError: this function takes no keyword arguments
> 
> regards

http://www.python.org/doc/1.5/


In this case the closest translation would be
line = string.split(string.strip(line), " ", 1)

but that behaves slightly different; the original you have there splits on
blocks of whitespace, the translation on single spaces so e.g.

>>> string.split("whee   whee")
['whee','whee']
>>> string.split("whee   whee", " ")
['whee','','','whee']

That may or may not be a problem, depending on what your strings look like
(are there multiple spaces between the first word and the rest?)

-- 
Remco Gerlich