> > This change looks wrong: > > PyDoc_STRVAR(rpartition__doc__, > -"S.rpartition(sep) -> (head, sep, tail)\n\ > +"S.rpartition(sep) -> (tail, sep, head)\n\ > > It looks like the code itself does the right thing, but I wasn't quite > confident of that. > It is correct. There may be some confusion in terminology. Head and tail do not mean left-side or right-side. Instead, they refer to the "small part chopped-off" and "the rest that is still choppable". Think of head and tail in the sense of car and cdr.
A post-condition invariant for both str.partition() and str.rpartition() is: assert sep not in head For non-looping cases, users will likely to use different variable names when they unpack the tuple: left, middle, right = s.rpartition(p) But when they perform multiple partitions, the "tail" or "rest" terminology is more appropriate for the part of the string that may still contain separators. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com