<[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". > > Terry> One could see that as a special-case back-compatibility kludge > Terry> that maybe should disappear in 3.0. > > Back compatibility with what?
os.stat without attributes. 'that' referred to its current 'sequence with attributes' return. > I'm -1 on the notion of generating groups or attributes. We agree. A back-compatibility kludge is not a precedent to be emulated. >In the case of stat() there is no reason other than historic > for the results to be returned in any particular order, Which is why I wonder whether the sequence part should be dropped in 3.0. 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
