Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:

items -> item

The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index e2023de5fe396eccb73c50d0e029c640d2508fa9..32b7c27b0028e0e238323e77ac1ccb059c6b632e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ The functions defined in this module are:
   separated by arbitrary strings of whitespace characters (space, tab, 
   newline, return, formfeed).  If the second argument \var{sep} is
   present and not \code{None}, it specifies a string to be used as the 
-  word separator.  The returned list will then have one more items
+  word separator.  The returned list will then have one more item
   than the number of non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in
   the string.  The optional third argument \var{maxsplit} defaults to
   0.  If it is nonzero, at most \var{maxsplit} number of splits occur,