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| author | Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> | 2004-09-14 09:40:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> | 2004-09-14 09:40:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 782afc5927c5d37c3de1a082b6363a79e4bd5962 (patch) | |
| tree | a578d8fac03802a70588e13ffa07314260efdf58 | |
| parent | 266a436fe2c20f32e4679df32762c2ddda9335f0 (diff) | |
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Enhance the docstrings for unicode.split() and string.split()
to make it clear that it is possible to pass None as the
separator argument to get the default "any whitespace" separator.
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/string.py | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/unicodeobject.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index e5afa9b..ce392be 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1): Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the 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. + is not specified or None, any whitespace string is a separator. (split and splitfields are synonymous) diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c index 05fd11c..722b427 100644 --- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c +++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c @@ -5987,8 +5987,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__, \n\ Return a list of the words in 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 None, +any whitespace string is a separator."); static PyObject* unicode_split(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args) |