Commit 40d56aae authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

SF bug #1108303: fix .split() maxsplit doc

Docs incorrectly stated that maxsplit=0 would cause unlimited splitting.
parent f8ba0892
......@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ string this method is called on.
Return a list of the words in the string, using \var{sep} as the
delimiter string. If \var{maxsplit} is given, at most \var{maxsplit}
splits are done. (thus, the list will have at most \code{\var{maxsplit}+1}
elements). If \var{maxsplit} is not specified or is zero, then there
elements). If \var{maxsplit} is not specified, then there
is no limit on the number of splits (all possible splits are made).
Consecutive delimiters are not grouped together and are
deemed to delimit empty strings (for example, \samp{'1,,2'.split(',')}
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