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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 /Lib | |
| 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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/string.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 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) |