[issue4054] str.split unintentionally strips char 'I' from the string

[Govind]

New submission from Govind <avgovind at hotmail.com>:

I tried to process a text file (with UTF-8 encoding) which has 
contents like this:


FILE=India
asbds
FILE=Indonasia
ssgsds
FILE=Africa
DBGDGDFG

When I use the below code:
>>> f = open("e:\\temp\\file.txt", 'r')
>>> lines = f.readlines()
>>> for line in lines:
	if line.startswith("FILE="):
		print line.strip("FILE=")


I get output as:
ndia

ndonasia

Africa


I is always stripped if it follows the substring that I want to strip 
off.

Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug in Python?

-Govind

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files: file.txt
messages: 74368
nosy: Govind
severity: normal
status: open
title: str.split unintentionally strips char 'I' from the string
type: behavior
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11710/file.txt

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