#2809 followup: even better split docstring.

Objects/stringobject.c

@@ -1502,8 +1502,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__,
 Return a list of the words in the string S, using sep as the\n\
 delimiter string.  If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit\n\
 splits are done. If sep is not specified or is None, any\n\
-whitespace string is a separator and leading and trailing\n\
-whitespace is stripped before splitting.");
+whitespace string is a separator and empty strings are removed\n\
+from the result.");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_split(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)

Objects/unicodeobject.c

@@ -7495,8 +7495,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(split__doc__,
 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 or is None, any\n\
-whitespace string is a separator and leading and trailing\n\
-whitespace is stripped before splitting.");
+whitespace string is a separator and empty strings are\n\
+removed from the result.");
 
 static PyObject*
 unicode_split(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args)