Small inconsistency between string.split and "".split

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:09:26 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Works here:
> <snip>
>  >>> s.split('s', 1)
> ['thi', ' is my string']
>  >>> s.split('s', 2)

Unfortunately, this is *not* what I had meant to ask for. What I am
saying is that:

import strings
strings.split(maxsplit=1)

works, while

mystring.split(maxsplit=1)

doesn't. In short, the builtin string method doesn't accept keyword
parameters while the strings.split() function does. Alas, the "None"
trick is not documented -- and without knowing about it, I had no
other way around.


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