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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects')
-rw-r--r--Objects/stringobject.c3
-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 9f154f3..9d51854 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -1498,7 +1498,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__,
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 or is None, any\n\
-whitespace string is a separator.");
+whitespace string is a separator and leading and trailing\n\
+whitespace is stripped before splitting.");
static PyObject *
string_split(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index a8e0e11..935d8b6 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -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)