[Python-Dev] correction of a bug (original) (raw)
Edward Loper edloper at gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Sun May 14 22:27:50 CEST 2006
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draconux wrote:
Hello all , string.lstrip("source/oldprog","source/") return "ldprog" instead of "oldprog"
You are misunderstanding what the second argument to lstrip does. It is interpreted as a list of characters; and lstrip will remove the maximal prefix of the string that consists of these characters. E.g.:
'aaabbbcccaax'.lstrip('abc') 'x'
The first character in your string that is not one of the characters 's', 'o', 'u', 'r', 'c', 'e', or '/' is 'l', so it strips all characters up to that one.
-Edward
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