Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] whatever happened to string.partition ?

[Raymond Hettinger]

Fredrik Lundh wrote: Yes. It went to my todo list and is awaiting some free raymond-cycles to finish it up. I've been task saturated of late but would like to get this a number of other patches complete for Py2.5. no need to wait for any raymond-cycles here; just point me to the latest version of the proposal, and it'll be in the trunk within 30 minutes. </F> IIRC, Skip had developed a smart  version that returned lazy string objects that kept a reference and pointers to the original string (instead of making its own copy of the string components).  The string subclass would expand itself and free the reference if necessary for a subsequent string operation.  The main purpose was to handle the cases where one fragment of the other was never used or just had a length check.  Also it was helpful when partition was used lisp-style to repeatedly break-off head/tail fragments. > are these still valid? > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055764.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055770.html Yes. Raymond

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