Couple functions I need, assuming they exist?

[Peter Hansen]

Charles Krug wrote:
> First, I'm reading that aString.split() is depreciated.  What's the
> current best practice for this?
> 
> Or am I mistaking that:
> 
> myWords = split(aString, aChar) 
 > is depreciated but

If you mean "import string; string.split(aString, aChar)" then
yes, it's deprecated (not "depreciated", by the way).

> myWords = aString.split(aChgar)
> is not?

Correct, this is perfectly acceptable.

> Second question, I've written a script that generates a LaTeX source
> containing randomly generated arithmetic problems of various types.
> 
> The target of the problems (my daughter) would prefer that the thousands
> be delimited.  Is there a string function that does this?

You refer to something like putting a comma between groups of three 
digits, as in 1,000?  This is locale-specific, and there's a "locale" 
module that should have what you need.

-Peter