Mensanator wrote:
That's interesting. If string.splitfields(delim) was equivalent to str.split(sep), it would have been useful to add the phrase "str.split(sep) is equivalent to the old string.splitfields(delim) which no longer exists." to the docs. That way, a search on "splitfields" would direct the user to str.split(sep) rather than simply throw a dialog box saying "No topics found". No one ever considers making life easy for the user.
I'm not sure what Python documentation you're consulting. I have Python 2.6.3rc1 on Windows XP. I launched the ...\doc\python263c1.chm help file, and searched for "splitfields". Here's what I got:
string.splitfields(/s/[, /sep/[, /maxsplit/]]) This function behaves identically to split() <#string.split>. (In the past, split() <#string.split> was only used with one argument, while splitfields() <#string.splitfields> was only used with two arguments.) -John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
