String split
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Mar 28 10:03:06 EST 2006
Michele Petrazzo wrote:
> I don't understand why split (string split) doesn't work with the same
> method if I can't pass values or if I pass a whitespace value:
>
> >>> "".split()
> []
> >>> "".split(" ")
> ['']
>
> But into the doc I see:
> """ If sep is not specified or is None, any whitespace string is a
> separator.
> """
>
> In this two cases, split would to return the _same_ result?
split(None) strips the string before splitting it (on runs of whitespace,
not on individual whitespace characters). see the library reference for
a complete description:
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
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