Bug or feature? 'abc'.split('') rejects empty separator

[Erik Max Francis]

Bengt Richter wrote:

>  >>> 'abc'.split('')
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  ValueError: empty separator
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense to return list('abc') ?

If that's what you really wanted, it would make far more sense to just
use list directly rather than calling string.split on the string.  The
error seems reasonable to me -- you shouldn't be using string.split if
that's what you really want.

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