[ python-Bugs-1104923 ] Bug in String rstrip method

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Bugs item #1104923, was opened at 2005-01-18 19:58
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Rick Coupland (rcouplan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Bug in String rstrip method

Initial Comment:
There appears to be a data sensitive bug in the string rstrip 
method as demonstrated by the following code: 
 
>>> "ecigrcal.fle".rstrip(".fle") 
'ecigrca' 
 
As you can see, it is striping an extra character. 

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Comment By: DSM (dsm001)
Date: 2005-01-18 20:51

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I don't think this is a bug.  The documentation for the
rstrip method reads:

rstrip(...)
    S.rstrip([chars]) -> string or unicode
    
    Return a copy of the string S with trailing whitespace
removed.
    If chars is given and not None, remove characters in
chars instead.

When you pass the method ".rle", you're telling it to treat
the four characters ".", "r", "l", and "e" as trailing
whitespace and remove them from the right side of the
string.  That's why it removes the extra "l".


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