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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/string.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index d682fc7..a416530 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1): """split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the - delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits into at most - maxsplit words. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string - is a separator. + delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits at no more than + maxsplit places (resulting in at most maxsplit+1 words). If sep + is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator. (split and splitfields are synonymous) |