Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: The two methods are defined differently, and act as defined, so this is a feature request, not a bug report.
str.split([sep[, maxsplit]]) ... If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done (thus, the list will have at most maxsplit+1 elements). If maxsplit is not specified, then there is no limit on the number of splits (all possible splits are made). re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0) ...If maxsplit is nonzero, at most maxsplit splits occur, Clearly, if maxsplit for re.split is the default of 0, it must do all splits. There is a difference between being optional with no default (possible with C-coded functions) and with a default. Logically, both should have a default of None, meaning no limit. But I agree with Ezio and do not see that happening for Python 3. As for negative values, I would have maxsplit treated as a count and make negative values a ValueError. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy status: open -> closed type: behavior -> feature request versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13346> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
