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Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:20:17 -0400

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Walter_D=F6rwald?= writes:

your version: "oofoo".strip("foo") => "" my version: "oofoo".strip("foo") => "oo"

It sounds like yours is more like Perl's chomp(), with an option about what to chomp off. Not a bad idea, not sure I'd ever use more than:

 line = line.chomp('\n')

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation