New submission from Sergio Correia:
str.split() does not accept maxsplits as a keyword argument.
If i want to split a string, and, say, get its first word, I do this:
>>> 'SPAM eggs eggs spam spam ham'.split(None, 1)[0]
'SPAM'
However, as documented on help(str.split), the separator is optional, so
I expected this to work:
>>> 'SPAM eggs eggs spam spam ham'.split(maxsplit=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8>", line 1, in <module>
'SPAM eggs eggs spam spam ham'.split(maxsplit=1)
TypeError: split() takes no keyword arguments
I feel allowing keyword arguments is convenient, but is there a reason
behind not allowing them?
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 56002
nosy: sergioc
severity: minor
status: open
title: str.split() takes no keyword arguments (Should this be expected?)
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5
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