On 31 Mar 2019, at 21:32, Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:

without_prefix
without_suffix

They're a little longer, but IMO "without" helps
reenforce the immutability of the underlying string.  None
of these functions actually remove part of the original
string, but rather they return a new string that's the
original string without some piece of it.

Which is the case for EVERY string method— we do need to get all wordy for just these two.