>>>>> "AK" == Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com> writes:
AK> Back in February, there was a thread in comp.lang.python (and,
AK> I think, also on Python-Dev) that asked whether the following
AK> behavior:
>> 'abcde'.split('')
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
| ValueError: empty separator
AK> was a bug or a feature. The prevailing opinion at the time
AK> seemed to be that there was not a sensible, unique way of
AK> defining this operation, so rejecting it was a feature.
AK> That answer didn't bother me particularly at the time, but
AK> since then I have learned a new fact (or perhaps an old fact
AK> that I didn't notice at the time) that has changed my mind:
AK> Section 4.2.4 of the library reference says that the 'split'
AK> method of a regular expression object is defined as
AK> Identical to the split() function, using the compiled
AK> pattern.
AK> This claim does not appear to be correct:
Actually, I believe what it's saying is that
re.compile('').split('abcde')
is the same as
re.split('', 'abcde')
not that re...split() has anything to do with the split() string
method.
-Barry
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