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@@ -530,8 +530,7 @@ form.
used in *pattern*, then the text of all groups in the pattern are also returned
as part of the resulting list. If *maxsplit* is nonzero, at most *maxsplit*
splits occur, and the remainder of the string is returned as the final element
- of the list. (Incompatibility note: in the original Python 1.5 release,
- *maxsplit* was ignored. This has been fixed in later releases.) ::
+ of the list. ::
>>> re.split('\W+', 'Words, words, words.')
['Words', 'words', 'words', '']
@@ -798,10 +797,7 @@ support the following methods and attributes:
Return a tuple containing all the subgroups of the match, from 1 up to however
many groups are in the pattern. The *default* argument is used for groups that
- did not participate in the match; it defaults to ``None``. (Incompatibility
- note: in the original Python 1.5 release, if the tuple was one element long, a
- string would be returned instead. In later versions (from 1.5.1 on), a
- singleton tuple is returned in such cases.)
+ did not participate in the match; it defaults to ``None``.
For example::