[Python-Dev] str.strip() enhancement (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sun Sep 4 00:20:52 CEST 2005

"Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:

[Jonny Reichwald] > I would like to suggest a small enhancement to str.strip(). > By expanding its current form, where it only takes a char list, to > taking any list containing either char lists or string lists, it is > possible to remove entire words from the stripped string. . . . > Would this be useful for anyone else besides me? Probably not.

There is also the point that this functionality is a 4-line function...

def trim_endings(strng, endings): for ending in endings: if ending and string.endswith(ending): return strng[:-len(ending)]

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