[Python-ideas] This seems like a wart to me...

[Terry Reedy]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:18 AM,  <skip at 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.