[issue3262] re.split doesn't split with zero-width regex

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

The problem with doing this per 3.0 is that it's impossible to write a
conversion script.

I'm okay with adding a flag to enable this behavior though.  Please open
a new bug with a new patch, preferably one that applies cleanly to the
trunk, and a separate patch for the py3k branch unless the trunk patch
merges cleanly.  There should also be unittests and documentation.  The
patches should be marked for Python 2.7 and 3.1 -- it's way too late to
get this into 2.6 and 3.0.

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