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    Pythonlangchain-coredocument_loadersbaseBaseLoaderload_and_split
    Method●Since v0.1

    load_and_split

    Load Document and split into chunks. Chunks are returned as Document.

    Danger

    Do not override this method. It should be considered to be deprecated!

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    load_and_split(
        self,
        text_splitter: TextSplitter | None = None,
    ) -> list[Document]

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    text_splitterTextSplitter | None
    Default:None

    TextSplitter instance to use for splitting documents.

    Defaults to RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.

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