split(None)

[Erik Max Francis]

Oliver Fromme wrote:

> So I thought that foo.split() and foo.split(None) should
> return the same result.  However:
> 
>    >>> "foo bar baz".split()
>    ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
> 
>    >>> "foo bar baz".split(None)
>    ['foo bar baz']

These behave identically in Python 2.1.1.

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