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authorWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2004-09-14 09:40:45 (GMT)
committerWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2004-09-14 09:40:45 (GMT)
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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.
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-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
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)