…”while getting the split parts” was implied. I’ll grant you: explicit is better than implicit, indeed! 😊

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str.partition ALWAYS gives you a three-tuple, str.split(…, 1) might return either a 1 or 2 element list.

That’s the key difference.

Also more natural when wanting to check whether the string contains or not the separator, I guess.

Interesting… I never thought about that, now that you mention it.

…sometimes, str.partition is your friend, too.