[Python-Dev] Re: Bug 911080, string split oddness

[Christian Tismer]

Jeff Epler wrote:

> How about:
> "If sep is not specified or None, then any sequence of whitespace is a
> separator."

Yes. But a thing that I was always missing, that in this
mode, I have no chance to specify what whitespace is.
I would like to add a way to spell this out.
Do you see any sane way for a syntax?

Or would it be better to see the current behavior as
a special case to be deprecated, and better have an extra method
like "splitspan" or something?

ciao - chris

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