From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 06:28:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF 582071 clarified the .split() method's docstring to note that sep=None
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~242
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bef3faa21e83256618eeb70ab8e7e95d69cccea;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

SF 582071 clarified the .split() method's docstring to note that sep=None
will trigger splitting on any whitespace.
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diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index b73eaa8bfaf7..7311df04a400 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -1098,8 +1098,8 @@ static char split__doc__[] =
 \n\
 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, any whitespace string\n\
-is a separator.";
+splits are done. If sep is not specified or is None, any\n\
+whitespace string is a separator.";
 
 static PyObject *
 string_split(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)