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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -2704,7 +2704,9 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).

``\v`` and ``\f`` added to list of line boundaries.

For example::
For example:

.. doctest::

>>> 'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines()
['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl']
Expand All @@ -2713,14 +2715,18 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).

Unlike :meth:`~str.split` when a delimiter string *sep* is given, this
method returns an empty list for the empty string, and a terminal line
break does not result in an extra line::
break does not result in an extra line:

.. doctest::

>>> "".splitlines()
[]
>>> "One line\n".splitlines()
['One line']

For comparison, ``split('\n')`` gives::
For comparison, ``split('\n')`` gives:

.. doctest::

>>> ''.split('\n')
['']
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