Suggestion: str.itersplit()

[Dustan]

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).