Charles Krug wrote: > First, I'm reading that aString.split() is depreciated. What's the > current best practice for this? > > Or am I mistaking that: > > myWords = split(aString, aChar) > is depreciated but
If you mean "import string; string.split(aString, aChar)" then yes, it's deprecated (not "depreciated", by the way). > myWords = aString.split(aChgar) > is not? Correct, this is perfectly acceptable. > Second question, I've written a script that generates a LaTeX source > containing randomly generated arithmetic problems of various types. > > The target of the problems (my daughter) would prefer that the thousands > be delimited. Is there a string function that does this? You refer to something like putting a comma between groups of three digits, as in 1,000? This is locale-specific, and there's a "locale" module that should have what you need. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list