[Tutor] python 3.3 split method confusion

[Alan Gauld]

On 04/01/14 14:10, Christian Alexander wrote:

> I am curious to know why the split() method does not output the
> arbitrary delimiter that is passed as an argument?  For example:

Because in most cases you don't want it and would have to strip
it off each element manually after the event.

I suppose they could have had a preserve parameter with a
default value of False for the few cases where you want to
keep it.

But in the majority of cases split is used where we read a line
of input from a data file where the data fields are separated
by some arbitrary character, usually comma, tab or pipe. The
important bit is the data not the separator.


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