Marc-Andre Lemburg: the maxsplit argument for split() and replace()
now defaults to -1, not to 0. Passing an explicit zero doesn't split
or replace at all.
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 8d6d622..5eb5697 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@
# 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):
+def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1):
"""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 nonzero, splits into at most
+ delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits into at most
maxsplit words. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string
- is a separator. Maxsplit defaults to 0.
+ is a separator.
(split and splitfields are synonymous)
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
return joinfields(L, "")
# Substring replacement (global)
-def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=0):
+def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1):
"""replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string
Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring