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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1992-08-19 16:49:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1992-08-19 16:49:58 (GMT) |
| commit | ae507a42a0425f2397a5f7b3163dc0c1d6d0aaef (patch) | |
| tree | b5b1b7e847b044e4284bb408056f5610d5ee7ae9 /Lib/string.py | |
| parent | 732282fa1130a027a51d406ed5132cde9ac636e7 (diff) | |
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splitfields(s, '') is illegal
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 94e9157..f358ac4 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -63,10 +63,14 @@ def split(s): # Split a list into fields separated by a given string # NB: splitfields(s, ' ') is NOT the same as split(s)! +# splitfields(s, '') is illegal +splitfields_error = 'string.splitfields called with empty separator' def splitfields(s, sep): res = [] - ns = len(s) nsep = len(sep) + if nsep == 0: + raise splitfields_error + ns = len(s) i = j = 0 while j+nsep <= ns: if s[j:j+nsep] == sep: |