John Salerno schrieb:
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>
>> Err... is it me being dumb, or is it a perfect use case for str.split ?
>
> Hmm, I suppose you could get nearly the same functionality as using
> split(':', 1), but with partition you also get the separator returned as
> well.
Well, x.split(":", 1) returns a list of one or two elements, depending on x,
while x.partition(":") always returns a three-tuple.
Thomas
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