The argument name `sep` of `split()` should be like `del` which means `delimiter` for consistency

[hyperkai]

The doc of split() is explained with the words, delimiter, delimiters and delimit a lot more than the words related to separator but the argument name is sep which means separator as shown below:

str.split(sep=None,` maxsplit=-1)
Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done (thus, the list will have at most maxsplit+1 elements). If maxsplit is not specified or -1, then there is no limit on the number of splits (all possible splits are made).

If sep is given, consecutive delimiters are not grouped together and are deemed to delimit empty strings (for example, '1,,2'.split(',') returns ['1', '', '2']). The sep argument may consist of multiple characters as a single delimiter (to split with multiple delimiters, use re.split()). Splitting an empty string with a specified separator returns [''].

So, the argument name sep should be like del which means delimiter for consistency as shown below. *The argument name sep of [rsplit()]https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.rsplit) should also be like below:

str.split(del=None,` maxsplit=-1)

[JelleZijlstra]

It cannot be del because that's a keyword, so using this name would be a syntax error. We could use something like delimiter, but changing that now would be a compatibility break because .split() accepts keyword arguments. We could possibly do it with a deprecation period but that doesn't seem worth the cost.

[terryjreedy]

print() also uses sep as parameter name.