Re: Idiom for last word in a string

2009-09-23 Thread Christos Trochalakis
At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:47:05 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I recently ran across this construct for grabbing the last (whitespace delimited) word in a string: s.rsplit(None,1)[1] It was somewhat obvious from the context what it was supposed to do, but it took a bit of Googling to

Re: Idiom for last word in a string

2009-09-23 Thread Christos Trochalakis
At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:47:05 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I recently ran across this construct for grabbing the last (whitespace delimited) word in a string: s.rsplit(None,1)[1] It was somewhat obvious from the context what it was supposed to do, but it took a bit of Googling to

Re: Idiom for last word in a string

2009-09-23 Thread Christos Trochalakis
At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:47:05 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I recently ran across this construct for grabbing the last (whitespace delimited) word in a string: s.rsplit(None,1)[1] It was somewhat obvious from the context what it was supposed to do, but it took a bit of Googling to

Re: Idiom for last word in a string

2009-09-23 Thread Christos Trochalakis
At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:47:05 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I recently ran across this construct for grabbing the last (whitespace delimited) word in a string: s.rsplit(None,1)[1] It was somewhat obvious from the context what it was supposed to do, but it took a bit of Googling to