On 9/5/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sep 5, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > >> Then shouldn't rpartition be S.rpartition(sep) -> (rest, sep, tail) > > > > Gads, the cure is worse than the disease. > > > > car and cdr are starting to look pretty good ;-) > > LOL, the lisper in me likes that too, but I don't think it'll work. :) >
but when it comes to cadr, cddr, cdar... ;^) I personally prefer (left, sep, right ) since it's most clear and there are many Python programmers whose first language is not English. > Fred's disagreement notwithstanding, I still like (left, sep, right), > but another alternative comes to mind after actually reading the > docstring for rpartition <wink>: (before, sep, after). Now, that's > not ambiguous is it? Seems to work for both partition and rpartition. > > - -Barry > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > > iQCVAwUBRP2+AHEjvBPtnXfVAQLiPAP+N80jHkoT5VNTtX1h2cqD4pONz+j2maCI > QXDBoODucxLDPrig8FJ3c6IcT+Uapifu8Rrvd7Vm8gSPMUsMqAgAqhqNDbXTkHVH > xLk31en2k2fdiCQKQyKJSjE1R1CaFCezByV29FK3fWvqrrxObISRnsxf/wXB6Czu > pOUNSA9LLKo= > =g+iz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > 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/seojiwon%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
