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From: python on 18 Jul 2010 21:51
And don't forget the oft requested strip_tease().

Malcolm
From: News123 on 19 Jul 2010 03:06
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:49:11 +0100, MRAB <python(a)mrabarnett.plus.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> How about 'strip_str', 'lstrip_str' and 'rstrip_str', or something
>
> Not sure what the first would do... unless one is envisioning
>
> "abracadabra".strip_str("abra")...
>
> For the others... trim_suffix, trim_prefix are more explicit in
> meaning -- after all, someone might ask if there is an *strip_unicode
> too! (or _bytes). That still leaves the question of what the desired
> behavior of
>
> "Shanana".trim_suffix("na")
>
> is to produce? "Sha" or "Shana"?
>
>


What I'd imagine would be stripping of a suffix or the first match in a
list of suffixes exactly once.

TO me this seems the most common use case, though one is surprised how
functions can be used.


Example:

def strip_suffix(str,*suffixes):
for suffix in suffixes:
if str.endswith(suffix):
return str[-len(suffix):]
return str
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