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