[issue5439] string.strip behaves strangly

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

It's a feature you don't understand. .strip() doesn't expect the
substring to be stripped, but a list of characters. Since the strip
characters contain /, all leading a,/,b characters get stripped (in any
order:

py> "////aaab/csdfhkab///c".strip("a/b")
'csdfhkab///c'

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nosy: +loewis
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed

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