string.split and re.split inconsistency

[François Pinard]

hanwen at dokkum.cs.uu.nl (Han-Wen Nienhuys) writes:

> Is there any particular reason why string.split and re.split tke arguments
> in different order?

I've read something, somewhere, about this.  I got that Guido was happy with
how `re' is specified, so correcting a choice for `string' that proven to
be less than ideal.  However, `string' had to remain compatible with itself.

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