Max Noel wrote: > > The [:2] is unnecessary, as you're limiting the number of splits to > 2, so the resulting list from split() can't have more than 3 elements. > Without the [:2], it fails
> Also, note that this code will likely cause the program to crash on > any system that isn't Linux. On my box (OS X 10.4.1), for example, > sys.platform returns 'darwin'. > Thanks, but it's for a linux program only -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
