Commit 05c35a6a authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

#15554: clarify splitlines/split differences.

Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
parent 9b000e7a
......@@ -1327,16 +1327,19 @@ functions based on regular expressions.
.. method:: str.splitlines([keepends])
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. 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.
Return a list of the lines in the string, breaking at line boundaries.
This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines.
Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless *keepends* is
given and true.
For example, ``'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines()`` returns
``['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl']``, while the same call with ``splitlines(True)``
returns ``['ab c\n', '\n, 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']``.
Unlike :meth:`~str.split` when a delimiter string *sep* is given, this
method returns an empty list for the empty string, and a terminal line
break does not result in an extra line.
.. method:: str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]])
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