a splitting headache
John Posner
jjposner at optimum.net
Thu Oct 22 17:35:36 EDT 2009
[resend, with Subject line corrected and formatting crud deleted]
Mensanator wrote:
> That's interesting. If string.splitfields(delim) was equivalent to
> str.split(sep), it would have been useful to add the phrase
> "str.split(sep) is equivalent to the old string.splitfields(delim)
> which no longer exists." to the docs. That way, a search on
> "splitfields" would direct the user to str.split(sep) rather than
> simply throw a dialog box saying "No topics found". No one ever
> considers making life easy for the user.
>
I'm not sure what Python documentation you're consulting. I have Python
2.6.3rc1 on Windows XP. I launched the ...\doc\python263c1.chm help
file, and searched for "splitfields". Here's what I got:
string.splitfields(/s/[, /sep/[, /maxsplit/]])
This function behaves identically to split(). (In
the past, split() was only used with one argument,
while splitfields() was only used with two
arguments.)
-John
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