Can we just fix this? The lack of an obvious way to delete a prefix or
suffix is a continual pain point for users of the language. We've just
had yet another bug report from some poor user who misunderstood the
lstrip method:

https://bugs.python.org/issue39880

More examples:

https://bugs.python.org/issue37114
https://bugs.python.org/issue36410
https://bugs.python.org/issue32772
https://bugs.python.org/issue25979

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4148974/is-this-a-bug-in-python-2-7
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34544247/understanding-pythons-lstrip-method-on-strings

Obviously there will be a month of bike-shedding arguments about the
names *wink* but can we at least agree that this is a genuine source of
confusion and a useful addition to the string API?



--
Steven
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