commit 6b6b39e8b634c8ed7256a1b0702ab26cfc3724e5
author Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> Fri Feb 09 20:18:41 2001 +0000
committer Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> Fri Feb 09 20:18:41 2001 +0000
tree f686983c81830fc52d57aaa9949247792d22e6f2
parent 10fb3863994a7242dd6f86bf8d571d30338f2061

Nuke accurate but confusing and unhelpful comments about split vs splitfields.

Lib/string.py

diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index bdd9254..913d980 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@
 
 
 # Split a string into a list of space/tab-separated words
-# NB: split(s) is NOT the same as splitfields(s, ' ')!
 def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1):
     """split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings
 

Lib/stringold.py

diff --git a/Lib/stringold.py b/Lib/stringold.py
index dcc1143..2ee0ad9 100644
--- a/Lib/stringold.py
+++ b/Lib/stringold.py
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
 
 
 # Split a string into a list of space/tab-separated words
-# NB: split(s) is NOT the same as splitfields(s, ' ')!
 def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=0):
     """split(str [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings