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: v2.7.4rc1~838 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35d03ed832cb7f3127794b218aac86fae93b8354;p=python #14763: document default maxsplit value for str.split. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index ad0b5521c3..cebe7528e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1161,8 +1161,8 @@ string 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