string.split() string.join() causes AttributeError in Python 3.x #233
Description
Some of function calls that involves string.split() or string.join() (e.g. _addindent) is incompatible with Python 3 (see below).
Python 3.5.2 |Anaconda 4.2.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jul 2 2016, 17:53:06)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux
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>>> import string
>>> string.split("test1 test2")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'string' has no attribute 'split'
Would it be better to use s.split("\n") or "\n".join(s) instead?