[Python-Dev] chomp()?

[Fred L. Drake]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:04:23 -0500, Guido
<guido@digicool.com> wrote:
 > Someone just posted a patch to implement s.chomp() as a
 > string method:
...
 > Any comments?  Is this needed given that we have
 > s.rstrip() already?

  I've always considered this a different operation from
rstrip().  When you intend to be as surgical in your changes
as possible, it is important *not* to use rstrip().
  I don't feel strongly that it needs to be implemented in
C, though I imagine people who do a lot of string processing
feel otherwise.  It's just hard to beat the performance
difference if you are doing this a lot.


  -Fred

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