Thank you for clarifying my inquiry. I was just unable to find the reason as to why the built-in excludes the delimiter from the outpu.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote: > On 04/01/14 14:10, Christian Alexander wrote: > > I am curious to know why the split() method does not output the >> arbitrary delimiter that is passed as an argument? For example: >> > > Because in most cases you don't want it and would have to strip > it off each element manually after the event. > > I suppose they could have had a preserve parameter with a > default value of False for the few cases where you want to > keep it. > > But in the majority of cases split is used where we read a line > of input from a data file where the data fields are separated > by some arbitrary character, usually comma, tab or pipe. The > important bit is the data not the separator. > > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Regards, Christian Alexander
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