On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM, knifenomad <knifeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > i know it's not very hard to get that solution. > just by implementing simple function like below. > > def partition(target, predicate): > """ > split a list into two partitions with a predicate > provided. > any better ideas? :) > """ > true = [] > false= [] > for item in target: > if predicates(item): > true.append(item) > else: > false.append(item) > return true, false > > but i wonder if there's another way to do this with standard libraries > or .. built-ins. > if it's not, i'd like the list objects to have partition method like > string module has.
(A) str.partition() has a /completely/ different meaning from your partition() (B) You'd probably have better luck getting it added to the itertools module since the concept is applicable to all iterables. [http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html] Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
