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#14957: clarify splitlines docs. 

Initial patch by Michael Driscoll, I added the example.
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R David Murray 2012-06-01 16:21:06 -04:00
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@ -1185,7 +1185,13 @@ string functions based on regular expressions.
Return a list of the lines in the string, breaking at line boundaries. Line
breaks are not included in the resulting list unless *keepends* is given and
true.
true. This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines.
Unlike :meth:`~str.split`, if the string ends with line boundary characters
the returned list does ``not`` have an empty last element.
For example, ``'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines()`` returns
``['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl']``, while the same call with ``splinelines(True)``
returns ``['ab c\n', '\n, 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']``.
.. method:: str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]])