Keywordargument in string.split

[P.J.W.S. Vrijlandt]

Hi all,

I have this error I don't quite understand.
Why can't I give 'sep' as a keyword argument?

It seems that the string module I import, is not the string.py in the 
standard distribution but a not-quite-equivalent c-implementation of 
it.

Patrick

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Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam 
>>> import string
>>> string.split('abcd', sep = 'c') 
Traceback  (innermost last):
  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
    string.split('abcd', sep = 'c')
TypeError: this function takes no keyword arguments
>>> def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=0):  # = string.split
           print s, sep, 
maxsplit >>> split('abcd', sep = 'c')
abcd c 0