string.split() docstring described the interpretation of the maxsplit
argument incorrectly.
This closes SF bug #505997.
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index d682fc7..a416530 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@
"""split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings
Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the
- delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits into at most
- maxsplit words. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string
- is a separator.
+ delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits at no more than
+ maxsplit places (resulting in at most maxsplit+1 words). If sep
+ is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator.
(split and splitfields are synonymous)