Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile

[Alexander Blinne]

Am 04.12.2012 20:37, schrieb Ian Kelly:
>     >>> def split_product(p):
>     ...     w = p.split(" ")
>     ...     j = next(i for i,v in enumerate(w) if v.upper() != v)
>     ...     return " ".join(w[:j]), " ".join(w[j:])
> 
> 
> It still fails if the product description is empty.

That's true... let's see, next() takes a default value in case the
iterator is empty and then we could use some special value and test for
it. But i think it would be more elegant to just handle the excepten
ourselves, so:

>>> def split_product(p):
...     w = p.split(" ")
...     try:
...         j = next(i for i,v in enumerate(w) if v.upper() != v)
...     except StopIteration:
...         return p, ''
...     return " ".join(w[:j]), " ".join(w[j:])

> I'm not meaning to pick on you; some of the other solutions in this
> thread also fail in that case.

It's ok, opening the eye for edge cases is always a good idea :)

Greetings