From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-04-30T09:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Should StringIO support to_str ?


Hal Fulton wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
> > Well, it may or may not be a platypus, but it's certainly a monotreme.
>
> That is only the second time I have heard that word, the first being
> the song "Mammal" by They Might Be Giants.
>

On this musical theme:

p 'monotreme'.sub(/(ono)(..)(e)/, '\3\2\1')


daz

--
Could I just take this opportunity to say that the default open mode
for StringIO is 'r+' _not_ 'w+' ?
'w+' would empty a string given to StringIO.new(string, 'w+').

Apologies for going [On Topic] in an [OT] thread.