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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-11-04 19:19:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-11-04 19:19:48 +0000 |
| commit | abcc75eb82a0a364b522224e5bf816f3539fc38c (patch) | |
| tree | 41df2a836d370549e63f6577ede8db042a34eadb /Lib/string.py | |
| parent | 19f694173b93f73269d75a0472e212ca41203e79 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-abcc75eb82a0a364b522224e5bf816f3539fc38c.tar.gz | |
split() docstring: Made signature and description for the first
parameter match. Error pointed out by François
Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> on c.l.py.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/string.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/string.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 2c3083e221..a43da32766 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ def rstrip(s): # Split a string into a list of space/tab-separated words # NB: split(s) is NOT the same as splitfields(s, ' ')! def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=0): - """split(str [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings + """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 nonzero, splits into at most - maxsplit words If sep is not specified, any whitespace string + maxsplit words. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator. Maxsplit defaults to 0. (split and splitfields are synonymous) |