On Oct 31, 2:12 pm, Chaim Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The documentation I am referencing states... > > The sep argument may consist of multiple characters (for example, "'1, > 2, 3'.split(', ')" returns "['1', '2', '3']"). > > So why doesn't the latter two split on *any* whitespace character, and > is instead looking for the sep string as a whole?
Now, rereading the documentation in light of the replies to my origional posting, I see that I misinterpreted the example as using "comma OR space" when it was actually "commaspace". I am now properly enlightened. Thank you all for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list