Is this a bug or a feature?
Python 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 19 2006, 11:55:22)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
>>> a = 'a b c\240d e'
>>> a
'a b c\xa0d e'
>>> a.split()
['a', 'b', 'c\xa0d', 'e']
>>> a = a.decode('latin-1')
>>> a
u'a b c\xa0d e'
>>> a.split()
[u'a', u'b', u'c', u'd', u'e']
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