On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:38 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 04:05:55PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
This proposal would provide a minor gain for an even more minor disruption.
I don't think that is correct. I think you are underestimating the gain and exaggerating the disruption :-)
I am very confused - I made that statement in response to a post of yours ( unless I got the attribution wrong) in which you seemed to be arguing against the proposal. But If I goaded you into making a strong case that I completely agree with — great! And for the record: I have put that very bug into production code. And I do use strip() with things other than white space — though never multiple characters (at least not on purpose) -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython