Roy Smith: > No reason to limit how many splits get done if you're > explicitly going to slice the first two.
You are probably right for this problem, because most lines are 2 items long, but in scripts that have to process lines potentially composed of many parts, setting a max number of parts speeds up your script and reduces memory used, because you have less parts at the end. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
