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authorWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2004-09-14 09:40:45 +0000
committerWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2004-09-14 09:40:45 +0000
commit782afc5927c5d37c3de1a082b6363a79e4bd5962 (patch)
treea578d8fac03802a70588e13ffa07314260efdf58 /Objects/unicodeobject.c
parent266a436fe2c20f32e4679df32762c2ddda9335f0 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-782afc5927c5d37c3de1a082b6363a79e4bd5962.tar.gz
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/unicodeobject.c')
-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 05fd11c55d..722b4274bb 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -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)