New submission from Harry Coin <hgc...@gmail.com>:
When first I read the str.split documentation I parsed it to mean
'ab\t cd ef'.split(sep=' \t') --> ['ab','cd','ef']
Especially as the given example in the docs with the <> would have led to the
given result read the way I read it.
I suggest adding a parameter 'any=False' which by default gives the current
behavior. But when True treats each character in the sep string as a delimiter
and eliminates any combination of them from the resulting list.
The use cases are many, for example parsing the /etc/hosts file where we see an
address, some white space that could be any combination of \t and ' ' followed
by more text.
One could imagine 'abc \tdef, hgi,jlk'.split(', \t',any=True) ->
['abc','def','hgi','jlk'] being used quite often.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 348116
nosy: hcoin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: str.split(sep=None, maxsplit=-1,any=False)
type: enhancement
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