Inconsistent behavior of split on empty string

[Batista, Facundo]

bk_kl at gmx.de wrote:

#- I think the following behavior of the build in function 
#- 'split' is inconsistent.
#- What do you think?
#- 
#- >>> "".split()
#- []
#- >>> "".split(";")
#- ['']

Don't know if it's inconsistent, but at least it's not explicited in the
Library Reference:

split([sep [,maxsplit ] ])
	
	Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter
string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit
	splits are done. If sep is not specified or None, any whitespace
string is a separator.


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