(Since bytes may be used for file names I think they should get this new capability too.)

I don’t really care one way or another, but is it really still the case that bytes need to be used for filenames? For uses other than just passing them around? 

Sigh.

In any case, while it’s fine to consider the bytes issue in choosing a name, I hope it doesn’t derail the whole idea.

-CHB 



On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 16:10 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 03:33:49PM -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:

> I think we should have a `stripstr()` as an alias for strip, and a new
> `stripchr()`.

Shouldn't they be the other way around?

`strip` removes chars from a set of chars; the proposed method will
remove a prefix/suffix.


> And I'm perfectly okay with bytes() not having those methods.  ;-)

If heavy users of bytes want these methods, they can request them
separately. There's no backwards compatibility requirement for new
string methods to be automatically added to bytes.

I guess the question now is do we need a PEP?


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