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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2005-01-26 22:40:08 +0000
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2005-01-26 22:40:08 +0000
commitbc029af436f90723e5b5bda4b9842d19153fe0a3 (patch)
tree38b0cd71847e1edfbb914c27b501b8692c63096a
parent9feb267cafb9452826694e5e098317c8b2799fe8 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-bc029af436f90723e5b5bda4b9842d19153fe0a3.tar.gz
SF bug #1108303: fix .split() maxsplit doc
Docs incorrectly stated that maxsplit=0 would cause unlimited splitting.
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index f67b16d201..6355731d7b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -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(',')}