[Python-Dev] partition() variants (original) (raw)

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Fri May 26 15:42:39 CEST 2006

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

I didn't find an answer in the str.partition() thread in the archives (it's enormous, so easy to miss the right message), so I have two questions:

1) Is str.rpartition() still wanted? 2) What about adding partition() to the re module?

And what happens if the separator is an instance of a subclass?

class s2(str): def repr(self): return "s2(%r)" % str(self)

print "foobar".partition(s2("o"))

Currently this prints: ('f', s2('o'), 'obar') Should this be ('f', 'o', 'obar') or not?

And what about: print s2("foobar").partition("x") Currently this prints (s2('foobar'), '', '')

Servus, Walter

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