Erich schrieb: > This is like split() but returns a list of exactly lenght n. This is > very useful when using unpacking, e.g.: > x, y = nsplit('foo,bar,baz', ',', 2)
You could use the second argument of split: x, y = 'foo,bar,baz'.split(',', 1) Note that the number has the meaning "only split n times" as opposed to "split into n parts". Cheers, Robin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list