https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bd3add06f6685502da78c52d0bee5b04ca708425 commit: bd3add06f6685502da78c52d0bee5b04ca708425 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: terryjreedy <[email protected]> date: 2025-05-14T21:33:38-04:00 summary:
[3.13] gh-133986: Document string split algorithm when sep is None and maxsplit is 0 (GH-133987) (#133992) gh-133986: Document string split algorithm when sep is None and maxsplit is 0 (GH-133987) --------- (cherry picked from commit 3e23047363f384b7254b7af51afe4e353be94167) Co-authored-by: Joey Smith <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Semyon Moroz <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 0936be0caaf903..ccaa0efaada7c7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2133,6 +2133,18 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module). >>> ' 1 2 3 '.split() ['1', '2', '3'] + If *sep* is not specified or is ``None`` and *maxsplit* is ``0``, only + leading runs of consecutive whitespace are considered. + + For example:: + + >>> "".split(None, 0) + [] + >>> " ".split(None, 0) + [] + >>> " foo ".split(maxsplit=0) + ['foo '] + .. index:: single: universal newlines; str.splitlines method _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
