MRAB: > If it was introduced into Python v3.x then wouldn't it have to be > called str.split in order to be consistent with xrange -> range? :-)
xsplit may be a name fit for Python 2.6/2.7. Regarding Python 3.0 you may be right, but then when you want the list of parts you have to do: list(somestring.split()) While to count the number of parts on Python 3.0 this may suffice: sum(1 for part in somestring.split()) Unless you use a leniter() function that counts the lazy iterations (its functionality can be folded inside the len() too, like in some lazy languages). Most of the times I think a lazy splitting may suffice, so in Python 3.0 the eager version may be absent :-) Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
