[New-bugs-announce] [issue4541] Add str method for removing leading or trailing substrings

[Zach Hirsch]

New submission from Zach Hirsch <zhirsch at umich.edu>:

I've found that having a way to strip a leading substring from a string
is convienent. I've also gotten bitten by the fact that str.strip takes
a sequence of characters to remove from the beginning -- not a full string.

I've attached a patch that implements lstrips, rstrips, and strips on
str, unicode, and as methods in the string module. I'm not particularly
attached to the names.

Please consider this patch for inclusion in Python. Thanks!

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components: Library (Lib)
files: lstrips-67529.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 76953
nosy: zhirsch
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add str method for removing leading or trailing substrings
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12232/lstrips-67529.patch

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