Peter Otten wrote: > The documentation for Python 2.4 has a better explanation. >
<-cut-> > Quoted after http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-202. > > Peter Thanks, I haven't see it. Just a question about that "different algorithm", because it force the developer to do other work for make the "split" result more "logically compatible": S = "" # this can become from an external source like config parser for s n S.split(): do the work... # don't go inside that isn't "compatible", so python split it into two different methods the string, with: for s n S.split(','): do the work... # run one time into this Michele -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list