Commit c4e6a2cf authored by Walter Dörwald's avatar Walter Dörwald

Enhance the docstrings for unicode.split() and string.split()

to make it clear that it is possible to pass None as the
separator argument to get the default "any whitespace" separator.
parent f355cf4c
......@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1):
Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the
delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits at no more than
maxsplit places (resulting in at most maxsplit+1 words). If sep
is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator.
is not specified or None, any whitespace string is a separator.
(split and splitfields are synonymous)
......
......@@ -5987,8 +5987,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__,
\n\
Return a list of the words in S, using sep as the\n\
delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit\n\
splits are done. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string\n\
is a separator.");
splits are done. If sep is not specified or None,
any whitespace string is a separator.");
static PyObject*
unicode_split(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args)
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