[Python-ideas] String Subtraction

[Laurens Van Houtven]

People already do this with the s1.replace(s2, "") idiom. I'm not sure what
the added value is. Your equivalent implementation looks pretty strange and
complex: how is it different from str.replace with the empty string as
second argument?


cheers
lvh
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