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Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	Catherine.Devlin, Mark.Bell, Philippe Cloutier, ZackerySpytz, barry, cheryl.sabella, corona10, gvanrossum, karlcow, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, syeberman, veky
Date	2021-05-18.16:41:41
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<1621356101.25.0.766545781253.issue28937@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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The case: ' a b c '.split(maxsplit=1) == ['a', 'b c '] suggests that empty strings don't count towards maxsplit, otherwise it would return [' a b c '] (i.e. the split would give ['', ' a b c '] and dropping the empty strings would give [' a b c ']).

The case:

    '  a b c  '.split(maxsplit=1) == ['a', 'b c  ']

suggests that empty strings don't count towards maxsplit, otherwise it would return [' a b c  '] (i.e. the split would give ['', ' a b c  '] and dropping the empty strings would give [' a b c  ']).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-05-18 16:41:41	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, gvanrossum, barry, syeberman, karlcow, serhiy.storchaka, Catherine.Devlin, Mark.Bell, veky, cheryl.sabella, corona10, ZackerySpytz, Philippe Cloutier
2021-05-18 16:41:41	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <1621356101.25.0.766545781253.issue28937@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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