newbe how to read in a string?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"Steffen Ries" <steffen.ries at sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:m366gz44g1.fsf at gondolin.beleriand...
> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
>
[snip]
> >
> > The 'old way' would be
> >     seq = map(float, string.split(a, ','))
> > and it still works fine of course, though I'd rather spell it
> >     seq = map(float, ','.split(a))
>
> You're (ab)using ",".join(seq) too much, it seems :-)
>
> What you wanted to say is: "seq = map(float, a.split(','))" (not
> counting the conversion problem of the first element...)
>

And I thought Alex found this syntax sooo logical and intuitive?

<wink, duck & cover>

:)

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