str.split() with empty separator

Ulrich Eckhardt eckhardt at satorlaser.com
Tue Sep 15 08:31:26 EDT 2009

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Hi!

"'abc'.split('')" gives me a "ValueError: empty separator".
However, "''.join(['a', 'b', 'c'])" gives me "'abc'".

Why this asymmetry? I was under the impression that the two would be
complementary.

Uli

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