Could someone please review the patch attached to this bug: http://python.org/sf/697220 There are two patches attached--one for 2.3 and one for 2.2.3. As you may recall, there was a parameter added to all the strip methods for 2.3. This was inadvertantly backported to 2.2.2, but only for string and unicode methods. Sometime back it was decided to update the string module for 2.2.2 to stay in sync with the string/unicode methods. However, there have been various partial fixes. I believe the patches correct all the problems: * fix differences between extra param name--it was referred to as both chars and sep in code/doc, always use chars * update docstrings, add notes about chars param (sep -> chars) * add chars param to each string.*strip() function (ie, lstrip, rstrip) * update doc with functionality and to correct when the param was added Neal