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Likely an autopilot bug. It's almost second nature for a lot of coders to do this when making a list of strings.

strlist = 'one, two, three, four, five'.split(", ")

That habit probably just kicked in a little when putting in that example.



Indeed, although the commas are superfluous.


The space character argument is also superfluous as it is the default.

strlist = 'one two three four five'.split()




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