Ron Adam wrote:
Correcting myself...
> I hope this discussion is only about the words used and the
> documentation and not about the actual order of what is received. I
> would expect both the following should be true, and it is the current
> behavior.
>
> ''.join(s.partition(sep)) -> s
> ''.join(s.rpartition(sep)) -> s
>>> 'abcd'.partition('x')
('abcd', '', '')
>>> 'abcd'.rpartition('x')
('abcd', '', '')
>>>
Ok, I see Raymonds point, they are not what I expected.
Although the above is still true, the returned value for the not found condition
is inconsistent.
_Ron
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