Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As promised, here is a full set of real-world comparative code
transformations using str.partition(). The patch isn't intended to be
applied; rather, it is here to test/demonstrate whether the new
construct offers benefits under a variety of use
Raymond writes:
That suggests that we need a variant of split() that has been customized
for typical find/index use cases. Perhaps introduce a new pair of
methods, partition() and rpartition()
+1
My only suggestion is that when you're about to make a truly
inspired suggestion like this one,
Michael Chermside wrote:
Raymond writes:
That suggests that we need a variant of split() that has been
customized for typical find/index use cases. Perhaps introduce a
new pair of methods, partition() and rpartition()
+1
My only suggestion is that when you're about to make a truly
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There is much focus on removing things,
A more descriptive name than 'partition' would be 'split_at'.
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[Delaney, Timothy (Tim)]
+1
This is very useful behaviour IMO.
Thanks. It seems to be getting +1s all around.
Have the precise return values of partition() been defined?
. . .
IMO the most useful (and intuitive) behaviour is to return strings in
all cases.
Yes, there is a precise
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Yes, there is a precise spec and yes it always returns three strings.
Movitation and spec:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055764.html
Ah - thanks. Missed that in the mass of emails.
My major issue is with the names - partition() doesn't
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:26, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
My major issue is with the names - partition() doesn't sound right to
me.
FWIW, I am VERY happy with the name partition().
I'm +1 on the functionality, and +1 on the name partition(). The only other
name that comes to mind is
Raymond == Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Raymond FWIW, I am VERY happy with the name partition().
Raymond ... [I]t is exactly the right word. I won't part with it
Raymond easily.
+1
I note that Emacs has a split-string function which does not have
those happy
Hi,
How about piece() ? Anthony can have his es that way too! ;-)
and it's the same number of characters as .split().
Cheers,
--ldl
On 8/29/05, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:26, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
My major issue is with the names -
Hi,
Re: multiples, etc...
Check out (and Pythonify) the ANSI M[UMPS] $PIECE(). See:
http://www.jacquardsystems.com/Examples/function/piece.htm
Cheers,
--ldl
On 8/29/05, LD Gus Landis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
How about piece() ? Anthony can have his es that way too! ;-)
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:26, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
FWIW, I am VERY happy with the name partition().
I like it too. +1
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Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
I think that one of the things I have against it is that most times I
type it, I get a typo. If this function is accepted, I think it will
(and should!) become one of the most used string functions around. As
such, the name should be *very* easy to type.
FWIW,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
Looks like I'm getting seriously outvoted here ... Still, as I said I
don't think the name is overly important until the idea has been
accepted anyway. How long did we go with people in favour of resource
manager until context manager came
On 2005-08-30, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:26, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
My major issue is with the names - partition() doesn't sound right to
me.
FWIW, I am VERY happy with the name partition().
I'm +1 on the functionality, and +1 on the name
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Heh! Maybe AttributeError and NameError should be renamed to
TypoError ;-) Afterall, the only time I get these exceptions is
when the fingers press different buttons than the brain requested.
You misspelled TyopError ;)
Tim Delaney
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