On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:34:31 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> But the split method doesn't accept a value of None for maxsplit, and I >> don't know what default value I should be using. > > def mysplit(S, *args): > pre_processing() > result = S.split(*args) > post_processing() > return result
Thanks Fredrik, that's *exactly* the sort of insight I was lacking. And now that you've shown me, I can't believe how obvious it is. -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
