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SF 582071 clarified the .split() method's docstring to note that sep=None will trigger splitting on any whitespace.
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date Mon, 05 Aug 2002 06:28:21 +0000
parents f5cfa0ee02cf
children 12e146171f3d
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--- a/Objects/stringobject.c	Mon Aug 05 03:55:36 2002 +0000
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c	Mon Aug 05 06:28:21 2002 +0000
@@ -1126,8 +1126,8 @@
 \n\
 Return a list of the words in the string S, using sep as the\n\
 delimiter string.  If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit\n\
-splits are done. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string\n\
-is a separator.");
+splits are done. If sep is not specified or is None, any\n\
+whitespace string is a separator.");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_split(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)