[Python-Dev] Bug 911080, string split oddness (original) (raw)
Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd at acm.org
Mon Mar 8 03:04:52 EST 2004
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Greg Ewing wrote:
Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net>:
I think the current version documentation intends to explain the no-argument form with this sentence: If sep is not specified or None, any whitespace string is a separator. [http://python.org/doc/current/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-197] I'm inclined to agree with Pete Shinners that the above explanation is perhaps a little too compressed. Maybe "any string of consecutive whitespace characters is a separator". Perhaps with an explicit note that this is NOT equivalent to .split(" \t\n") and the reason why. Pete Shinners <pete at shinners.org>:
See the existing bug report #901654 which is specifically about the split documentation. Please add to that.
-- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>
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