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[Ben Finney]

"mensanator at aol.com" <mensanator at aol.com> writes:

> IDLE 1.2c1
> >>> s = '123 456'
> >>> s.split()
> ['123', '456']

The str.split method has no bearing on this discussion, which is about
the Python language syntax, and numeric literal values in particular.

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Ben Finney