From 07973dab97e64f661120d817865b23d88f50b93b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Bastin Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:59:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Modified string.split documentation to reflect behaviour of splitting emtpy string. Closes SF bug #811604 --- Doc/lib/libstring.tex | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex index 11e31cf3bd..abd6a07a30 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The functions defined in this module are: and the remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list (thus, the list will have at most \code{\var{maxsplit}+1} elements). + + The behavior of split on an empty string depends on the value of \var{sep}. + If \var{sep} is not specified, or specified as \code{None}, the result will + be an empty list. If \var{sep} is specified as any string, the result will + be a list containing one element which is an empty string. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{rsplit}{s\optional{, sep\optional{, maxsplit}}} -- 2.50.1