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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index b89387f..8f7fc5c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1329,7 +1329,13 @@ functions based on regular expressions. Return a list of the lines in the string, breaking at line boundaries. Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless *keepends* is given and - true. + true. This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines. + Unlike :meth:`~str.split`, if the string ends with line boundary characters + the returned list does ``not`` have an empty last element. + + For example, ``'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines()`` returns + ``['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl']``, while the same call with ``splinelines(True)`` + returns ``['ab c\n', '\n, 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']``. .. method:: str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]]) |