Keywordargument in string.split

[P.J.W.S. Vrijlandt]

I wrote:

> I have this error I don't quite understand.
> Why can't I give 'sep' as a keyword argument?
> 
> It seems that the string module I import, is not the string.py in the 
> standard distribution but a not-quite-equivalent c-implementation of 
> it.

I got replies pointing to 'strop', which is a c-implementation of 
string, and is imported by string.py

But what is the header (def) of split in strop? 
(and why is it different)



> 
> Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on 
> win32 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam 
> >>> import string
> >>> string.split('abcd', sep = 'c') 
> Traceback  (innermost last):
>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
>     string.split('abcd', sep = 'c')
> TypeError: this function takes no keyword arguments
> >>> def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=0):  # = string.split
>            print s, sep, 
> maxsplit >>> split('abcd', sep = 'c')
> abcd c 0
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Met vriendelijke groet,

Patrick Vrijlandt