On Sep 23, 2:47 pm, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > I recently ran across this construct for grabbing the last > (whitespace delimited) word in a string: > > s.rsplit(None,1)[1] > > It was somewhat obvious from the context what it was supposed > to do, but it took a bit of Googling to figure out exactly what > was going on. > > When I want the last word in a string, I've always done this: > > s.split()[-1] > > I was wondering what the advantage of the rsplit(None,1)[1] > approach would be other than inducing people to learn about the > maxsplit argument that is accepted by the split() methods? > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want a VEGETARIAN > at BURRITO to go ... with > visi.com EXTRA MSG!!
hello, perhaps rsplit generates as many elements in the list as absolutely necesary compared to the whole list returned by split()? konstantin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
