Andrei Kulakov <[email protected]> added the comment:
Just to sum up the current state the way I see it, as well as the history of
the discussion, I think there were 2 initial requests based on experience and
one additional, more theoretical "nice to have":
A. ''.split() => ['']
B. ''.split(sep) => [] # where sep!=None
C. a way to get the current semantics of sep=None, but with specific whitespace
separators like just spaces or just tabs. 'a b'.split(' ') => ['a','b']
The idea was to cover all 3 enhancements with the current patch.
As I pointed out in the comments above, current patch does not "cleanly" cover
case B, potentially leading to confusion and/or bugs.
My suggestion was to cover cases A and B, and leave out C, potentially for some
future patch.
If we go with the current patch, there will be no practical way to fix the
issue with B later, other than adding a new `str.split2`. Conversely, it would
be possible to add a new flag to handle C in the future.
This leads to a few questions:
- will the issue I brought up not really be a problem in practice?
- what's more important, B or C?
- if both B and C are important, can we leave C for a future patch?
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