Re: [Python-ideas] New explicit methods to trim strings

25 Mar 2019


      On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:24 PM Jonathan Fine <jfine2358@gmail.com> wrote:
...
Instead of naming these operations, we could use '+' and '-', with semantics:
# Set the values of the variables.
    >>> a = 'hello '
    >>> b = 'world'
    >>> c = 'hello world'
# Some values between the variables.
    >>> a + b == c
    True
    >>> a == c - b
    True
    >>> b = -a + c
    True
The semantics are rather underdefined here. What *exactly* does string
subtraction do? Is a-b equivalent to a.replace(b, "") or something
else? Also.... you imply that it's possible to negate a string and
then add it, but... what does a negative string look like? *confused*

ChrisA

Re: [Python-ideas] New explicit methods to trim strings

Chris Angelico