I like partition() but maybe even better would be if strings supported
slicing by string indices.
key, sep, val = 'foo = 32'.partition('=')
would be:
key, val = 'foo = 32'[:'='], 'foo = 32'['=':]
To me it feels very natural to extend Python's slices to string
indices and would cover most of partition()'s use cases. The if sep:
idiom of parition() could be solved by throwing an IndexError: e.g:
_, sep, port = host.partition(':')
if sep:
try:
int(port)
except ValueError:
becomes:
try:
port = host[':':]
int(port)
except IndexError:
pass
except ValueError:
An advantage of using slices would be that you could specify both a
beginning and ending string like this:
>>> s
'http://192.168.12.22:8080'
>>> s['http://':':']
'192.168.12.22'
Sorry if this idea has already been discussed.
--
mvh Björn
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