From: Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:40:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Enhance the docstrings for unicode.split() and string.split()
X-Git-Tag: v2.4b1~266
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=782afc5927c5d37c3de1a082b6363a79e4bd5962;p=python

Enhance the docstrings for unicode.split() and string.split()
to make it clear that it is possible to pass None as the
separator argument to get the default "any whitespace" separator.
---

diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index e5afa9b22a..ce392be4e9 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1):
     Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the
     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.
+    is not specified or None, any whitespace string is a separator.
 
     (split and splitfields are synonymous)
 
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 05fd11c55d..722b4274bb 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -5987,8 +5987,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__,
 \n\
 Return a list of the words in S, using sep as the\n\
 delimiter string.  If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit\n\
-splits are done. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string\n\
-is a separator.");
+splits are done. If sep is not specified or None,
+any whitespace string is a separator.");
 
 static PyObject*
 unicode_split(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args)