[Python-Dev] string.split

[Sjoerd Mullender]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>>Andreas Beyer wrote:
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>>>I think there are different interpretations of what a separator is.
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> That
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>>>is not necessarily a bug, because without stripping a new-line at
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> the
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>>>end of the string would yield a non-intuitive result list. However,
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> the
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>>>difference between split with and without the 'sep' argument should
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> be
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>>>documented.
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> [Sjoerd Mullender]
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>>This is intended behavior and is not going to be changed.
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>>However, I must agree that the documentation for the string method is
>>somewhat lacking.  The documentation of the split function in the
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> string
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>>module is much clearer.
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> If you copy your note into SourceForge and assign it to me, you will
> substantially increase the odds that I will fix the docs in the next few
> days.

Done.  Bug # 901654.


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Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>