Grant Edwards wrote:
I recently ran across this construct for grabbing the last
(whitespace delimited) word in a string:
s.rsplit(None,1)[1]
... I've always done this:
s.split()[-1]
I was wondering what the advantage of the rsplit(None,1)[1]
approach would be ...
Others have pointed out the efficiency reason (asking the machine
to do a pile of work that you intend to throw away). But nobody
warned you:
s.rsplit(None, 1)[-1]
would be better in the case of 'single_word'.rsplit(None, 1)
--Scott David Daniels
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