[Zope3-dev] spelling of namespace signifiers

[Shane Hathaway]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
>>Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>>Shane Hathaway wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'll express my interpretation of the above in Python:
>>>>
>>>>parts = traversed_name.split('--', 1)
>>>>if len(parts) == 2:
>>>>    namespace, name = parts
>>>>else:
>>>>    namespace, name = 'content', traversed_name
>>>>
>>>>Is that your interpretation?
>>>
>>>
>>>No. The part before the first -- is the namespace and the
>>>part after the first -- is the name.
>>
>>Uh, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said.
> 
> 
> No, you said that if there would more than 1 set of --s, 
> then the name would be the original name and the namespace would
> be content.

As a side note, now I know not to use the split() trick too often.  It's 
too easy to misinterpret.  "s.split('--', 1)" can only return a sequence 
containing either 1 item or 2 items.  So the above code works, but it's 
confusing.

Shane