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#14763: fix documentation for string.split/rsplit.

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Ezio Melotti 2012-05-09 14:59:24 +03:00
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@ -905,14 +905,15 @@ not be removed until Python 3. The functions defined in this module are:
Return a list of the words of the string *s*. If the optional second argument
*sep* is absent or ``None``, the words are separated by arbitrary strings of
whitespace characters (space, tab, newline, return, formfeed). If the second
whitespace characters (space, tab, newline, return, formfeed). If the second
argument *sep* is present and not ``None``, it specifies a string to be used as
the word separator. The returned list will then have one more item than the
number of non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string. The
optional third argument *maxsplit* defaults to 0. If it is nonzero, at most
*maxsplit* number of splits occur, and the remainder of the string is returned
as the final element of the list (thus, the list will have at most
``maxsplit+1`` elements).
number of non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
If *maxsplit* is given, at most *maxsplit* number of splits occur, and the
remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list (thus,
the list will have at most ``maxsplit+1`` elements). If *maxsplit* is not
specified or ``-1``, then there is no limit on the number of splits (all
possible splits are made).
The behavior of split on an empty string depends on the value of *sep*. If *sep*
is not specified, or specified as ``None``, the result will be an empty list.
@ -925,7 +926,7 @@ not be removed until Python 3. The functions defined in this module are:
Return a list of the words of the string *s*, scanning *s* from the end. To all
intents and purposes, the resulting list of words is the same as returned by
:func:`split`, except when the optional third argument *maxsplit* is explicitly
specified and nonzero. When *maxsplit* is nonzero, at most *maxsplit* number of
specified and nonzero. If *maxsplit* is given, at most *maxsplit* number of
splits -- the *rightmost* ones -- occur, and the remainder of the string is
returned as the first element of the list (thus, the list will have at most
``maxsplit+1`` elements).