[issue14957] Improve docs for str.splitlines

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4d9b3a58e208 by R David Murray in branch '3.2': #14957: fix doc typo. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4d9b3a58e208 New changeset 3bb35ad5d9da by R David Murray in branch 'default': #14957: fix doc typo. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3bb35ad5d9d

[issue14957] Improve docs for str.splitlines

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks. I added an example, too, since split has some. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker

[issue14957] Improve docs for str.splitlines

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 24572015e24f by R David Murray in branch '3.2': #14957: clarify splitlines docs. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/24572015e24f New changeset 2a43088318ed by R David Murray in branch 'default': #14957: clarify splitlines docs. http://hg.python.org/c

[issue14957] Improve docs for str.splitlines

Michael Driscoll added the comment: I'm assuming Nick is talking about the stdtypes.rst (in Doc/library) file, correct? If so, I went ahead and created a simple patch that almost uses his verbiage verbatim. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +michael.driscoll Added file: http://bugs.python.org

[issue14957] Improve docs for str.splitlines

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- keywords: +easy nosy: +eric.araujo stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue14957] Improve docs for str.splitlines

New submission from Nick Coghlan : The docs for str.splitlines() should explain: 1. That it uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines 2. That unlike str.split() a trailing empty line is *not* included in the resulting list -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentatio