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Walter D�rwald walter@livinglogic.de
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:06:26 +0200 (CEST)

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I'd like to add the optional argument support for strip and friends to > 2.2.2. It solves a real problem, and is useful for people going forward > (in the same way as the not-really-bool() code).

Go ahead. Maybe Walter wants to help? (Walter: there's no obligation, and I understand if you prefer not to learn about CVS branches just yet. :-)

I have not problems with branches, but I guess that those that do backports regularily have scripts that simplify the job.

What's still missing is the version for unicode. Note that my patch http://www.python.org/sf/424606 works a little different: Here the argument is a complete word that should be stripped, not a collection of characters, i.e. your version: "oofoo".strip("foo") => "" my version: "oofoo".strip("foo") => "oo"

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