Bugs item #1171994, was opened at 2005-03-28 12:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by tjreedy You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1171994&group_id=5470
Category: Documentation Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Wai Yip Tung (tungwaiyip) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: error in documentation for splitting empty string Initial Comment: Below is extracted from http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/ lib/string-methods.html describing the string method split(). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- split([sep [,maxsplit]]) ... Splitting an empty string with a specified separator returns an empty list. If sep is not specified or is None, a different splitting algorithm is applied. ... Splitting an empty string returns "['']". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The rationale for different treatment of splitting an empty string seems to be discussed in 811604. However the documentation seems to be the opposite of actual result. >>> ''.split(',') [''] >>> ''.split() [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy) Date: 2005-03-30 12:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=593130 The new 2.4.1 doc (released today) at http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html remains the same. Verified behavior on 2.2. If unchanged (lest code be broken), there does seem to be a problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1171994&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
