David Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I don't think this really addresses the issue properly...
The original docstring read:
+Note that not specifying sep (or using None) will cause\n\
+empty strings to be removed from the output. thus ' '.strip()\n\
+returns []. while ' '.strip(' ') returns ['', ''].
(Obviously strip is wrong here, it should be split)
The committed docstring reads:
+If sep is not specified or is None, any whitespace string is a
separator and leading and trailing whitespace is stripped before splitting.
But the point is not just that leading and trailing whitespace is
stripped; ''.strip() returns [] while ''.strip(' ') returns ['']. This
is probably the most unexpected corner case; it seems to be better to
say that empty strings are removed from the output.
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nosy: +davidfraser
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