[Chicago] is there really no built-in file/iter split() thing?

[David Terrell]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:52:01AM -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> 
>     Ian> One thing I've noticed is that some string operations are fairly
>     Ian> efficient in this case, because they notice when they wouldn't do
>     Ian> anything and don't create a new string.
> 
>     ...
> 
>     >>> x.split()[0] is x
>     False
> 
> Patch here:
> 
>     http://bugs.python.org/issue1538

And who says these micro-optimization threads don't lead to useful
output?

*Applause.*

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