[New-bugs-announce] [issue38247] list(str.split(ch)) Does not print blank elements upon repeating character(ch)

[Aman Priyanshu]

New submission from Aman Priyanshu <amanpriyanshusms2001 at gmail.com>:

I have been annoyed by the fact that at multiple where we print list(str.split(ch)) we get empty elements in place of repeated characters (ch).

Example:

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>>> print(list("Hello World How Are You?".split(" ")))
['Hello', 'World', 'How', 'Are', 'You?']
>>> print(list("Hello World       How Are      You?".split(" ")))
['Hello', 'World', '', '', '', '', '', '', 'How', 'Are', '', '', '', '', '', 'You?']
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So can it be fixed so that  it gives:

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>>> print(list("Hello World How Are You?".split(" ")))
['Hello', 'World', 'How', 'Are', 'You?']
>>> print(list("Hello World       How Are      You?".split(" ")))
['Hello', 'World', 'How', 'Are', 'You?']
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messages: 352955
nosy: AmanPriyanshu
priority: normal
pull_requests: 15902
severity: normal
status: open
title: list(str.split(ch))  Does not print blank elements upon repeating character(ch)
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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