[issue28937] str.split(): allow removing empty strings (when sep is not None)

[Philippe Cloutier]

Philippe Cloutier <chealer at gmail.com> added the comment:

I understood the current (only) behavior, but coming from a PHP background, I really didn't expect it. Thank you for this request, I would definitely like the ability to get behavior matching PHP's explode().

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nosy: +Philippe Cloutier
title: str.split(): remove empty strings when sep is not None -> str.split(): allow removing empty strings (when sep is not None)

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