Matthew Barnett <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment:
The best way to think of it is that .split() is like .split(' '), except that
it's splitting on any whitespace character instead of just ' ', and keepempty
is defaulting to False instead of True.
Therefore:
' x y z'.split(maxsplit=1, keepempty=True) == ['', ' x y z']
because:
' x y z'.split(' ', maxsplit=1) == ['', ' x y z']
but:
' x y z'.split(maxsplit=1, keepempty=False) == ['x y z']
At least, I think that's the case!
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