Thanks for the feedback! I meant mnemonic as in the broader sense of "way of remembering things", not some kind of rhyming device or acronym. Maybe "mnemonic" isn't the perfect word. I was just trying to say that the structure of how the methods are named should how their behavior relates to one another, which it seems you agree with. Fair enough that ``[l/r]strip`` and the proposed methods share the behavior of "removing something from the end of a string". From that perspective, they're similar. But my thought was that ``s.lstrip("abc")`` has extremely similar behavior when changing "lstrip" to "rstrip" or "strip" -- the argument is interpreted in the exactly same way (as a character set) in each case. Looking at how the argument is used, I'd argue that ``lstrip``/``rstrip``/``strip`` are much more similar to each other than they are to the proposed methods, and that the proposed methods are perhaps more similar to something like ``str.replace``. But it does seem pretty subjective what the threshold is for behavior similar enough to have related names -- I see where you're coming from. Also, the docs at ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=lstrip#string-meth... ) are alphabetical, not grouped by "similar names", so even ``lstrip``, ``strip``, and ``rstrip`` are already in different places. Maybe the name "stripprefix" would be more discoverable when "Ctrl-f"ing the docs, if it weren't for the following addition in the linked PR: .. method:: str.lstrip([chars]) Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed. The *chars* argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or ``None``, the *chars* argument defaults to removing whitespace. The *chars* argument is not a prefix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:: >>> ' spacious '.lstrip() 'spacious ' >>> 'www.example.com'.lstrip('cmowz.') 'example.com' + See :meth:`str.cutprefix` for a method that will remove a single prefix + string rather than all of a set of characters.