On 1 Apr 2019, at 02:23, David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 8:11 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

Regarding later proposals to add support for multiple affixes, to
recursively delete the affix repeatedly, and to take an additional
argument to limit how many affixes will be removed: YAGNI.

That's simply not true, and I think it's clearly illustrated by the example I gave a few times. Not just conceivably, but FREQUENTLY I write code to accomplish the effect of the suggested:

basename = fname.rstrip(('.jpg', '.gif', '.png'))

I probably do this MORE OFTEN than removing a single suffix.

Doing this with a for loop and without_suffix is fine though. Without without_suffix it's suddenly error prone. With a without_suffix that takes a typle it's unclear what happens without reading the code.

I think a single string argument is a great sweet spot: avoid the most error prone part and keep the loop in user code.