From: Ezio Melotti Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:30:42 +0000 (+0300) Subject: #14763: document default maxsplit value for str.split. X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a4~216^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf3165b971d3fe9ad426beacc9bcf926c9d45267;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git #14763: document default maxsplit value for str.split. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 153ee44cc98e..d46cee504ad9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1304,8 +1304,8 @@ functions based on regular expressions. Return a list of the words in the string, using *sep* as the delimiter string. If *maxsplit* is given, at most *maxsplit* splits are done (thus, the list will have at most ``maxsplit+1`` elements). If *maxsplit* is not - specified, then there is no limit on the number of splits (all possible - splits are made). + specified or ``-1``, then there is no limit on the number of splits + (all possible splits are made). If *sep* is given, consecutive delimiters are not grouped together and are deemed to delimit empty strings (for example, ``'1,,2'.split(',')`` returns