Suggestion: str.itersplit()

[Dustan]

On Apr 21, 4:18 pm, Dustan <DustanGro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 7:58 am, Dustan <DustanGro... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >From my searches here, there is no equivalent to java's
>
> > StringTokenizer in python, which seems like a real shame to me.
>
> > However, str.split() works just as well, except for the fact that it
> > creates it all at one go. I suggest an itersplit be introduced for
> > lazy evaluation, if you don't want to take up recourses, and it could
> > be used just like java's StringTokenizer.
>
> > Comments?
>
> If anybody could inform me on how to get my hands on the python source
> code, I might even be able to come up with an example of how it could
> be implemented. I have no idea how to unzip that tgz or tar.bz2 file
> on a windows machine, though (and that's not from lack of trying).

Thanks to both Jorge Godoy and Alex Martelli for their responses; I
went with winzip. After spending about 10 minutes looking at this
stuff, I can easily conclude that having the code and understanding
the code are 2 very different things (and yes, I do have some
experience in C and C++). But that's a matter to tackle on another day.