[Python-Dev] "funny".split("")

[Christian Tismer]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

...


> One plausible rule, which would have the advantage of working the
> same for empty and nonempty separators, is that no element of
> the result can be equal to the separator.


Eeeeehhh!
That sounds very good.
It can make me unconvinced again, of course.
Split can never return the separator,
that makes the number of possible answers
not only finite, but unique!

Excellent!

Guys, please let me know if this will be changed,
soon, since I want to finish the translation :-)

len("ciao - chris".split("")) == 12)

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