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Wed Aug 31 01:05:20 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055874.html

Ron Adam wrote:

> For cases where single values are desired, attribues could work.
>
> Slicing:
>        line = line.partition(';').head
>        line = line.partition('#').head
>
> But it gets awkward as soon as you want more than one.
>
>        sep, port = host.partition(':').head, host.partition(':').sep

unless you go for the piece approach

    host, port = host.piece(":", 1, 2)

(which, of course, is short for

    host, port = host.piece(":").group(1, 2)

)

and wait for Mr Eby to tell you that piece has nothing whatsoever
to do with string splitting.

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