On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:24, Michael Chermside wrote:
> > How about something like this:
> >
> > S.partition(sep) -> (head, sep, tail)
> > S.rpartition(sep) -> (tail, sep, rest)
>
> I think I prefer:
>
> S.partition(sep) -> (head, sep, rest)
> S.rpartition(sep) -> (tail, sep, rest)
>
> Here, "rest" is always used for "what remains"; head/tail are somewhat more
> clear here I think.
But isn't rest is in the wrong place there, for rpartition: that's not the
string that you might typically call.rpartition() on a second time. How
about:
S.partition(sep) -> (left, sep, rest)
S.rpartition(sep) -> (rest, sep, right)
John
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