What is partition function for string in python?

Answer 1

It splits a string a puts the result in a tuple, try this:

x = "16.11"
print(x.partition('.'))

The result is:
('16', '.', '11')

Answer 2

Note that this will only partition on the first occurrence of the separator.

x.split('.') will split on all occurrences but it will not include the separator.