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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/stringold.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/stringold.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/stringold.py b/Lib/stringold.py index f358ac4..6386a95 100644 --- a/Lib/stringold.py +++ b/Lib/stringold.py @@ -63,13 +63,12 @@ def split(s): # Split a list into fields separated by a given string # NB: splitfields(s, ' ') is NOT the same as split(s)! -# splitfields(s, '') is illegal -splitfields_error = 'string.splitfields called with empty separator' +# splitfields(s, '') returns [s] (in analogy with split() in nawk) def splitfields(s, sep): res = [] nsep = len(sep) if nsep == 0: - raise splitfields_error + return [s] ns = len(s) i = j = 0 while j+nsep <= ns: |