From 0c81ed6a5ad6fe23ff4ce095f60a6a04ac6b7f91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:16:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] string.split() docstring described the interpretation of the maxsplit argument incorrectly. This closes SF bug #505997. --- Lib/string.py | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 913d980bae6d..ec447c2a6a8c 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ 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) -- 2.47.3