Carl Banks wrote: <snip>
s.split() and s.split(sep) do different things, and there is no string sep that can make s.split(sep) behave like s.split(). That's not unheard of but it does go against our typical expectations. It would have been a better library design if s.split() and s.split(sep) were different methods.
It looks like they *were* different methods. The Oct 1996 edition of "Programming Python" (O'Reilly & Assoc.), based on Python 1.3, describes two separate functions in the "string" module in Chapter 16:
string.split() string.splitfields(delim) -John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
