"Christian Stork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:49:26PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: >> A more descriptive name than 'partition' would be 'split_at'. > > 'split_at' is really what's happening. (I came up with it independently > of Greg, if that is any evidence).
At least semi-seriously, how about condensing 'split_at' to 'splat', a variant of split (and splash), as in 'hit the string on the separator, and with a splat, split it into 3 pieces'. (See dictionary.com for various meanings.) 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
