Hello all ,

I found a bug in python I'm using python 2.4 with debian etch

string.lstrip("source/old_prog","source/") return "ld_prog" instead of "old_prog" So I wanted to create a patch in order to contribute to python, but I have some question :

- grep 'def lstrip' show that this function are defined in string.py In this fill I read :

# NOTE: Everything below here is deprecated. Use string methods instead. # This stuff will go away in Python 3.0.

so lstrip is deprecated, and we are recommanded to use string method But this is string.py which define string method, isn't it ?

- The function lstrip is : def lstrip(s, chars=None): """lstrip(s [,chars]) -> string

Return a copy of the string s with leading whitespace removed. If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.

""" return s.lstrip(chars)

but where is defined this lstrip(chars) function ???? I can't found it with grep.

Sorry I'm a c programer, and I'm not used with python for me, It's easier to debug c program than python :)