Someone (Andrew Barnert?) has claimed that another name, like cut or trim, would be too confusing. I’m not sure I agree. I think strip_prefix is more confusing, and stripstr or strstrip would unnecessarily cut off the option of adding this to bytes. (Since bytes may be used for file names I think they should get this new capability too.)

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?

--
Steven
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