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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-11-04 19:19:48 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-11-04 19:19:48 (GMT) |
| commit | e4f13660f80d1324f066b32a6b54fce7d875635c (patch) | |
| tree | fde32e28e2d992e08144584ca7ead5986f7e4d47 /Lib/string.py | |
| parent | 1b6e463bd54f6e0236b256fe1b47857b778387a9 (diff) | |
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split() docstring: Made signature and description for the first
parameter match. Error pointed out by François
Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> on c.l.py.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 2c3083e..a43da32 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ def rstrip(s): # Split a string into a list of space/tab-separated words # NB: split(s) is NOT the same as splitfields(s, ' ')! def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=0): - """split(str [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings + """split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is nonzero, splits into at most - maxsplit words If sep is not specified, any whitespace string + maxsplit words. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator. Maxsplit defaults to 0. (split and splitfields are synonymous) |