MRAB: > It's interesting, if you think about it, that here we have someone who > wants to split on a set of characters but 'split' splits on a string, > and others sometimes want to strip off a string but 'strip' strips on > a set of characters (passed as a string).
That can be seen as a little inconsistency in the language. But with some practice you learn it. > You could imagine that if > Python had had (character) sets from the start then 'split' and > 'strip' could have accepted a string or a set depending on whether you > wanted to split on or stripping off a string or a set. Too bad you haven't suggested this when they were designing Python 3 :-) This may be suggested for Python 3.1. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
