[Python-ideas] Allowing negative `maxsplit` in `str.split`

[cool-RR]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Chris Rebert <pyideas at rebertia.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:07 PM, cool-RR <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
> > Here's something that I would want now: An ability to give a negative
> > `maxsplit` argument to `str.split`, to make it start splitting from the
> end
> > of the string.
> > For example, right now I wanted to be able to separate a module's name
> > 'hello.world.meow' to ['hello.world', 'meow'] without knowing how many
> dots
> > would be in the name. If I could give a `maxsplit` of -1 to achieve this,
> it
> > would be nice.
> > What do you think?
>
> What's wrong with 'hello.world.meow'.rsplit(maxsplit=1) ?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --
> http://blog.rebertia.com
>

What a noob I am, I didn't know that existed. Thanks Chris.

Ram.
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