Nick Coghlan wrote: >> I am think more in the line of string.ljust(). So if we have a >> list.ljust(length, filler), we >> can do something like >> >> name, value = s.split('=',1).ljust(2,'') > > Eh? > > Py> s.split('=',1).ljust(2,'') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'ljust'
I think the "if we have" was hypothetical. I still don't see why the OP cannot just write a small helper and be done with it, but then I don't know anything about how Python is used, so I might be wrong ;-) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list