Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dustan 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? > > Does it really make such a difference?
It would if you were dealing with enormous blocks of text at once, say from a database. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list