Re: A proposal idea for string.split with negative maxsplit

2005-01-28 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-28, Fredrik Lundh schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> This behaviour would remain but additionally we would have the >> following. >> > "st1:st2:st3:st4:st5".split(':',-2) >> ["st1:st2:st3" , "st4" , "st5"] >> >> What do people think here? > "st1:st2:st3:st4

Re: A proposal idea for string.split with negative maxsplit

2005-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Antoon Pardon wrote: > This behaviour would remain but additionally we would have the > following. > "st1:st2:st3:st4:st5".split(':',-2) > ["st1:st2:st3" , "st4" , "st5"] > > What do people think here? >>> "st1:st2:st3:st4:st5".rsplit(':', 2) ['st1:st2:st3', 'st4', 'st5'] -- http://ma

A proposal idea for string.split with negative maxsplit

2005-01-28 Thread Antoon Pardon
I was wondering what people whould think about a change of behaviour in the split method fo strings. The idea would be that if maxsplit was negative then abs(maxsplit) splits would be done, but splitting would start from the right instead of the left. Now we have. >>> "st1:st2:st3:st4:st5".split