split weirds

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Robin Becker wrote:
> Can somebody explain why strip behaves differently with and without an

   "split", not "strip" :)

> argument?
[skip]
> with the default whitespace arg seems as though a run of whitespace is
> being treated as a single character.

   It is documented behaviour: "If sep is not specified or None, any
whitespace string is a separator."

Oleg.
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