I have a question about the split function? surpose a = "|",and when I use a.split("|") , I got the list ['"",""] ,but I want to get the empty list,what should I do ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20120814/28d029ad/attachment.html>