[Python-ideas] str.split with empty separator (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jul 30 06:27:44 CEST 2010


On 30/07/10 14:41, MRAB wrote:

Does it really have a complex set of behaviours?

I think Raymond may be referring to the fact that the behaviour of split() with and without a splitting string differs in subtle ways with certain edge cases. It's almost better thought of as two different functions that happen to share a name.

-- Greg



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