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

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment:

The case:

    '  a b c  '.split(maxsplit=1) == ['a', 'b c  ']

suggests that empty strings don't count towards maxsplit, otherwise it would return [' a b c  '] (i.e. the split would give ['', ' a b c  '] and dropping the empty strings would give [' a b c  ']).

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