"Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can do both: make partition() return a sequence with attributes, > similar to os.stat(). However, I would call the attributes "before", > "sep", and "after".
One could see that as a special-case back-compatibility kludge that maybe should disappear in 3.0. My impression is that the attributes were added precisely because unpacking several related attributes into several disconnected vars was found to be often awkward. The sequencing is arbitrary and one often needs less that all attributes. Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
