#14957: clarify splitlines docs.
Initial patch by Michael Driscoll, I added the example.
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index bf86d8eb..b01c892 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1353,7 +1353,13 @@
Return a list of the lines in the string, breaking at line boundaries. Line
breaks are not included in the resulting list unless *keepends* is given and
- true.
+ true. This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines.
+ Unlike :meth:`~str.split`, if the string ends with line boundary characters
+ the returned list does ``not`` have an empty last element.
+
+ For example, ``'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines()`` returns
+ ``['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl']``, while the same call with ``splinelines(True)``
+ returns ``['ab c\n', '\n, 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']``.
.. method:: str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]])