[Python-ideas] String Subtraction (original) (raw)

Laurens Van Houtven lvh at laurensvh.be
Thu Oct 14 23:15:28 CEST 2010


People already do this with the s1.replace(s2, "") idiom. I'm not sure what the added value is. Your equivalent implementation looks pretty strange and complex: how is it different from str.replace with the empty string as second argument?

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