Mercurial > cpython-lru_cache-weakref
diff Lib/string.py @ 21848:fd424f519a8e 2.2
string.split() docstring described the interpretation of the maxsplit
argument incorrectly.
This closes SF bug #505997.
| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:15:59 +0000 |
| parents | 22b2f4b436af |
| children | b08b51dce264 46407d0a6000 |
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--- a/Lib/string.py Tue Jan 29 14:54:18 2002 +0000 +++ b/Lib/string.py Wed Jan 30 16:15:59 2002 +0000 @@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ """split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the - delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits into at most - maxsplit words. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string - is a separator. + delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits at no more than + maxsplit places (resulting in at most maxsplit+1 words). If sep + is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator. (split and splitfields are synonymous)