New submission from Alan Grow <alangrow+pythonb...@gmail.com>:
If you split a string in a maximum of zero places, you should get the original
string back. "".split(s,0) behaves this way. But re.split(r,s,0) performs an
unlimited number of splits in this case.
To get an unlimited number of splits, "".split(s,-1) is a sensible choice. But
in this case re.split(r,s,-1) performs zero splits.
Where's the sense in this?
>>> import string, re
>>> string.split("foo bar baz"," ",0)
['foo bar baz']
>>> re.split("\s+","foo bar baz",0)
['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
>>> string.split("foo bar baz"," ",-1)
['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
>>> re.split("\s+","foo bar baz",-1)
['foo bar baz']
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 147066
nosy: acg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: re.split() should behave like string.split() for maxsplit=0 and
maxsplit=-1
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
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