Behaviour of str.split

[Will McGugan]

Hi,

I'm curious about the behaviour of the str.split() when applied to empty 
strings.

"".split() returns an empty list, however..

"".split("*") returns a list containing one empty string.

I would have expected the second example to have also returned an empty 
list. What am I missing?


TIA,

Will McGugan


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"".join( [ {'*':'@','^':'.'}.get(c,None) or chr(97+(ord(c)-84)%26) for c 
in "jvyy*jvyyzpthtna^pbz" ] )