[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 616 -- String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:54 AM Dennis Sweeney sweeney.dennis650@gmail.com wrote:

This is a proposal to add two new methods, ``cutprefix`` and ``cutsuffix``, to the APIs of Python's various string objects.

The names should use "start" and "end" instead of "prefix" and "suffix", to reduce the jargon factor and for consistency with startswith/endswith.

-n