Terry Reedy wrote: > "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.
Good point. Unlike os.stat(), it's very easy to remember the order of the return values from partition(). I'll add my +1 vote for part() and +0.9 for partition(). As for the regex version of partition(), I wonder if a little cleanup effort is in order so that new regex features don't have to be added in two places. I suggest a builtin for compiling regular expressions, perhaps called "regex". It would be easier to use the builtin than to import the re module, so there would no longer be a reason for the re module to have functions that duplicate the regular expression methods. 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
