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| author | Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin@gmail.com> | 2004-03-21 16:59:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin@gmail.com> | 2004-03-21 16:59:59 (GMT) |
| commit | 07973dab97e64f661120d817865b23d88f50b93b (patch) | |
| tree | 7118ea878c983515d2032f8a4992084abc758fea | |
| parent | 5f112eb43b85dcb78795d2bd56fedac43e6a40c0 (diff) | |
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Modified string.split documentation to reflect behaviour of splitting emtpy string. Closes SF bug #811604
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex index 11e31cf..abd6a07 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The functions defined in this module are: and the remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list (thus, the list will have at most \code{\var{maxsplit}+1} elements). + + The behavior of split on an empty string depends on the value of \var{sep}. + If \var{sep} is not specified, or specified as \code{None}, the result will + be an empty list. If \var{sep} is specified as any string, the result will + be a list containing one element which is an empty string. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{rsplit}{s\optional{, sep\optional{, maxsplit}}} |