From 222907da5694097da7a6ee7ad1f89c53e024b550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:40:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not
 split on an empty pattern match. (issue 852532).

---
 Doc/library/re.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index d5abcdd2a2..e01a8cc726 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -544,6 +544,13 @@ form.
       >>> re.split('\W+', 'Words, words, words.', 1)
       ['Words', 'words, words.']
 
+   Note that *split* will never split a string on an empty pattern match.
+   For example ::
+
+      >>> re.split('x*', 'foo')
+      ['foo']
+      >>> re.split("(?m)^$", "foo\n\nbar\n")
+      ['foo\n\nbar\n']
 
 .. function:: findall(pattern, string[, flags])
 
-- 
2.50.0