Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Unless there is already another issue for improving the doc, this should at
least be left open as a doc issue.
But I had the same thought as Serhiy, that we should at least optionally make
the current doc correct. Two possibilities:
newlines=False If true, only split on \r, \n, \r\n; otherwise split on all
latin-1 linebreak characters -- <list>. {This is rather awkward.}
linebreak=True If true, split on all latin-1 linebreak characters <list>;
otherwise only split on \r, \n, \r\n. {Better, to me}
Changing both code and doc, at least in 3.5, says that both are wrong. If we
agree on this, there is still the awkward issue of what to do for 3.4. Just
change the doc? Then email must do something different in 3.4 to work around
the code behavior. I think this may warrant a pydev discussion.
Another issue is whether latin-1 linebreaks are privileged. Why not implement
the full unicode linebreak algorithm.
An additional complication is that in 2.x, .splitlines acts as advertised.
>>> 'a\x0ab\x0bc\x0cd\x0dda\x0d\x0a1c\x1c1d\x1d1e\x1e85\x85end'.splitlines()
['a', 'b\x0bc\x0cd', 'da', '1c\x1c1d\x1d1e\x1e85\x85end']
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status: closed -> open
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