title: Why does str.split not take keyword arguments?
body: <p>I came across this - in my view - strange behaviour:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"a b c".split(maxsplit=1)
  TypeError: split() takes no keyword arguments
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  <p>Why does str.split() not take keyword arguments, even though it would make sense? I found this behavior both in Python2 and Python3.</p>