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

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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