Hey there,
This is my first letter here, I'll try my best to explain the problem.
First of all, I ran into this "problem" several times. I find
str.split() a bit confusing. First of all, this is a corner case, but
can happen like every day.
print("".split()) # returns []
print("".split(" ")) # returns ['']
print("".split("\t")) # returns ['']
print("".split("\n")) # returns ['']
print("".splitlines()) # returns []
So using split with or without a separator matters a lot, even when we
use the same whitespace character split() uses. I think it is quite
annoying. My idea is to return a list with an empty string in all cases
mentioned above.
Best,
Gabor
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