[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): #14957: clarify splitlines docs.

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 02:42:13 CEST 2012


On Jun 2, 2012 6:21 AM, "r.david.murray" <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/24572015e24f
> changeset:   77288:24572015e24f
> branch:      3.2
> parent:      77285:bf6305bce3af
> user:        R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
> date:        Fri Jun 01 16:19:36 2012 -0400
> summary:
>  #14957: clarify splitlines docs.
>
> Initial patch by Michael Driscoll, I added the example.
>
> files:
>  Doc/library/stdtypes.rst |  8 +++++++-
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
> --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
> +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
> @@ -1329,7 +1329,13 @@
>
>    Return a list of the lines in the string, breaking at line boundaries.
 Line
>    breaks are not included in the resulting list unless *keepends* is
given and
> -   true.
> +   true. This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting
lines.
> +   Unlike :meth:`~str.split`, if the string ends with line boundary
characters
> +   the returned list does ``not`` have an empty last element.
> +
> +   For example, ``'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines()`` returns
> +   ``['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl']``, while the same call with
``splinelines(True)``
> +   returns ``['ab c\n', '\n, 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']``.

s/splinelines/splitlines/

Maybe also show what split() would do for that string?

>
>
>  .. method:: str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]])
>
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