gah! I hate the new string syntax

Magnus Lie Hetland mlh at idi.ntnu.no
Fri Mar 2 16:34:37 EST 2001


"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh at valinux.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.983551204.27573.python-list at python.org...
[...]
> The point of all of this was 'join' especially,
> but a few of the others (it
> brother split) make for really ugly code.
>
> " ".split(list) is another I have seen recently.
>

What does *this* mean, then? (AFAIK it isn't valid
Python unless list is a character...)

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