The "article" is my TIL mini-blog. What were you expecting besides a "today I learned"?

I already knew this information, more or less, but I like reading TIL posts like this. It's fun seeing the someone learn new things, and sometimes I pick up something myself, or at least look at it in a new way.

Yeah, don't listen to parent. I like these sorts of articles a lot; its only useless if you assume that everyone interested has also memorized the Python docs fully (which I imagine is zero people). Fun technical tangents are quite fun indeed.

What is "yossarian", BTW? I'd gotten confused thinking it was someone else's blog, because I naturally parse that as a surname.

John Yossarian is the protagonist of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22[1], which was my favorite book in high school. Like a lot of people, my handle is a slightly embarrassing memorialization of my younger self :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22

Don't be embarrassed, it's a good book (and was my favorite too).

> Like a lot of people, my handle is a slightly embarrassing memorialization of my younger self :-)

... Guilty, actually.

Sometimes value is measured by awareness. I benefited from becoming aware of the behavior because of the article. Yes, it's in the docs, but the docs are not something I would have gone looking to read today.

The value of this article, to me, is that I'd never read the splitlines documentation, so this is a little detail that I just learned thanks to it being linked here.

I've been working with Python for a year or so now, and never knew this. I'm grateful to the author.

For all of us that don't read all documentation for every single method, tool, function or similar, it is, by awarenes, very useful.