[issue852532] ^$ won't split on empty line

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[issue852532] ^$ won't split on empty line

Mike Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I'd feel better about this bug being 'wont fix'ed if I had a sense that several people considered the patch and thought that it sucked. At the moment, it seems more like it just fell off of the end without ever being seriously contemplated. :-

[issue852532] ^$ won't split on empty line

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[issue852532] ^$ won't split on empty line

Mike Coleman added the comment: Well, I think we can conclude that it's expected by *them*. :-) I still find it surprising, and it somewhat lessens the utility of re.split for my use cases. (I think re.finditer may also suffer from the same problem, but I don't recall.) If you look at the com

[issue852532] ^$ won't split on empty line

Skip Montanaro added the comment: Doc note checked in as r57878. Can we conclude based upon Tim's and Fredrik's comments that this behavior is to be expected and won't change? If so, I'll close this item. -- assignee: fdrake -> skip.montanaro nosy: +skip.montanaro resolution: postponed