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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T16:56:05+00:00 2026-05-13T16:56:05+00:00

What is the point of ‘/segment/segment/’.split(‘/’) returning [”, ‘segment’, ‘segment’, ”] ? Notice the

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What is the point of '/segment/segment/'.split('/') returning ['', 'segment', 'segment', '']?

Notice the empty elements. If you’re splitting on a delimiter that happens to be at position one and at the very end of a string, what extra value does it give you to have the empty string returned from each end?

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    2026-05-13T16:56:05+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 4:56 pm

    str.split complements str.join, so

    "/".join(['', 'segment', 'segment', ''])
    

    gets you back the original string.

    If the empty strings were not there, the first and last '/' would be missing after the join().

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