I think splitting an empty string is more like dividing zero in half. No one expects that to raise a value exception.

--- Bruce

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matthew Russell
<matt.horizon5@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me like spliting an empty string is something that makes little
> sense to do,
> similar to dividing by zero in terms of an analogy.

I guess you have never had the need. Let me assure you that you are
mistaken. :-)

> How about str.split, partition and friends just raise ValueError exception
> when the value is the empty string?

Absolutely not.

> Regards,
> Matt
>
> 2008/12/11 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
>>
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:18 AM,  <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If anything it's wrong, it's that they share the same name. This
>>> wasn't always the case. Do you really want to go back to .split() and
>>> .splitfields(sep)?
>>
>> I hope not.  I consider the current situation to be a definite
>> improvement.  I sometimes forgot which was which.
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