From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:15:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: string.split() docstring described the interpretation of the maxsplit
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6758
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1453754fcda8d9f48e484ce39e80ef5b27aada99;p=python

string.split() docstring described the interpretation of the maxsplit
argument incorrectly.
This closes SF bug #505997.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index d682fc7abc..a416530e5d 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ 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)