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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 09:11:40 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 09:11:40 (GMT)
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#2809: elaborate str.split docstring a bit.
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diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
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@@ -7494,8 +7494,9 @@ 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 or is None,\n\
-any whitespace string is a separator.");
+splits are done. If sep is not specified or is None, any\n\
+whitespace string is a separator and leading and trailing\n\
+whitespace is stripped before splitting.");
static PyObject*
unicode_split(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args)