Jack Diederich <jackd...@gmail.com> added the comment:

I suggest this be closed WONTFIX.  The str.split() documentation accurately 
describes str.split() but doesn't happen to do what the OP wanted which was

list(filter(None, '00010001'.split('0')))

Instead split(sep) is the reciprocal of sep.join(), that is
txt == sep.join(txt.split(sep))

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nosy: +jackdied

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