Small feature request - optional argument for string.strip()
Is it OK to post small feature requests directly to this list, or is there some other mechanism for them? What I have in mind certainly isn't worth a PEP. The .split method on strings splits at whitespace by default, but takes an optional argument allowing splitting by other strings. The .strip method (and its siblings) always strip whitespace - on more than one occasion I would have found it useful if these methods also took an optional argument allowing other strings to be stripped. For example, to strip, say, asterisks from a file you could do:
fred = '**word**word**' fred.strip('*') word**word
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Is it OK to post small feature requests directly to this list, or is there some other mechanism for them? What I have in mind certainly isn't worth a PEP.
It's better to use the SF feture request tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
The .split method on strings splits at whitespace by default, but takes an optional argument allowing splitting by other strings. The .strip method (and its siblings) always strip whitespace - on more than one occasion I would have found it useful if these methods also took an optional argument allowing other strings to be stripped. For example, to strip, say, asterisks from a file you could do:
fred = '**word**word**' fred.strip('*') word**word
Does this sound sensible/useful?
Marginally. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
On 25 July 2001, Simon Brunning said:
fred = '**word**word**' fred.strip('*') word**word
Does this sound sensible/useful?
Not really. I can't recall ever having a need for such a feature in any programming language I've ever used. Greg -- Greg Ward - programmer-at-big gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
Simon Brunning wrote:
The .split method on strings splits at whitespace by default, but takes an optional argument allowing splitting by other strings. The .strip method (and its siblings) always strip whitespace - on more than one occasion I would have found it useful if these methods also took an optional argument allowing other strings to be stripped. For example, to strip, say, asterisks from a file you could do:
fred = '**word**word**' fred.strip('*') word**word
Does this sound sensible/useful?
I've never seen a case where this was wanted except to delete *all* such characters. string.translate() does that, but in an awkward way. Perhaps a wrapper for string.translate() might make sense, called something like string.delete(). -- --- Aahz (@pobox.com) Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 <*> http://www.rahul.net/aahz/ Androgynous poly kinky vanilla queer het Pythonista I don't really mind a person having the last whine, but I do mind someone else having the last self-righteous whine.
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