Does anybody know any practical use for the partition() function: print("abcd".partition("c"))

Question

I found the partition function in a challenge. I can't think of a reason to use it. It looks less usefull than split().When should it be used?

Answer 1

partition() splits at the 1st occurrence of the substring, leaving the substring in the resulting list.

split() splits at each occurrence of the substring, excluding the substring from the resulting list.

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Answer 2

Yeah if you want to split a word at any letter. The use case is the use case. If you need it, use it. If not, then don't.