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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2002-08-05 06:28:21 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2002-08-05 06:28:21 (GMT)
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SF 582071 clarified the .split() method's docstring to note that sep=None
will trigger splitting on any whitespace.
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-rw-r--r--Objects/stringobject.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index c40bc18..3c1b303 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -1126,8 +1126,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__,
\n\
Return a list of the words in the string 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 is None, any\n\
+whitespace string is a separator.");
static PyObject *
string_split(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)