"Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>> +1 for partition().
>
> Looks like I'm getting seriously outvoted here ... Still, as I said I
> don't think the name is overly important until the idea has been
> accepted anyway. How long did we go with people in favour of "resource
> manager" until "context manager" came up?
Certainly no longer than until I got up the morning after the
discussion started :)
partition() works for me. It's not perfect, but it'll do. The idea
works for me rather more; it even simplifies the
if s.startswith(prefix):
t = s[len(prefix):]
...
idiom I occasionally wince at.
Cheers,
mwh
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