Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > > Shane Hathaway a écrit : >>Are you sure? I would instead expect to find a .partition method on a >>regexp object: >> >> head, sep, tail = re.compile(sep+'.'*offset).partition(some_str) > > > Well, to be consistent with current re module, it would be better to > follow Antoine's suggestion : > > head, sep, tail = re.partition(re.compile(sep+'.'*offset), some_str)
Actually, consistency with the current re module requires new methods to be added in *both* places. Apparently Python believes TMTOWTDI is the right practice here. ;-) See search, match, split, findall, finditer, sub, and subn: http://docs.python.org/lib/node114.html http://docs.python.org/lib/re-objects.html Shane _______________________________________________ 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
