[New-bugs-announce] [issue14081] Allow "maxsplit" argument to str.split() to be passed as a keyword argument

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

Currently, setting maxsplit for the default "any whitespace" behaviour requires the following cryptic incantation:

    'do re mi fa'.split(None, 1)

That would be significantly more comprehensible as:

    'do re mi fa'.split(maxsplit=1)

(I noticed this when trying to figure out why http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting#split-notes resorted to using the re module to achieve this)

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 153920
nosy: ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Allow "maxsplit" argument to str.split() to be passed as a keyword argument
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3

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