Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment:
This is working as designed. The error is telling you that the argument to bytes.split() must be a string: >>> b''.split(',') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' >>> b''.split(b',') [b''] Same for str.split(): >>> ''.split(b',') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: must be str or None, not bytes >>> ''.split(',') [''] ---------- components: -Argument Clinic nosy: +eric.smith -larry _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45087> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com