At 02:25 PM 8/30/2005 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >That case should be handled with consecutive partitions: > ># keep everything after the second 'X' >head, found, s = s.partition('X') >head, found, s = s.partition('x')
Or: s=s.partition('X')[2].partition('X')[2] which actually suggests a shorter, clearer way to do it: s = s.after('X').after('X') And the corresponding 'before' method, of course, such that if sep in s: s.before(sep), sep, s.after(sep) == s.partition(sep) Technically, these should probably be before_first and after_first, with the corresponding before_last and after_last corresponding to rpartition. _______________________________________________ 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