At 10:01 AM 8/30/2005 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > >> Check out (and Pythonify) the ANSI M[UMPS] $PIECE(). See: > >> http://www.jacquardsystems.com/Examples/function/piece.htm > > > > As far as I can see, either you misunderstand what partition() does, or > > I'm > > completely misunderstanding what $PIECE does. As far as I can tell, > > $PIECE > > and partition() have absolutely nothing in common except that they take > > strings as arguments. :) > >both split on a given token. partition splits once, and returns all three >parts, while piece returns the part you ask for
No, because looking at that URL, there is no piece that is the token split on. partition() always returns 3 parts for 1 occurrence of the token, whereas $PIECE only has 2. >(the 3-argument form is >similar to x.split(s)[i]) Which is quite thoroughly unlike partition. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
