[Python-ideas] New explicit methods to trim strings

[Anders Hovmöller]

> On 1 Apr 2019, at 02:23, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 8:11 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Regarding later proposals to add support for multiple affixes, to 
>> recursively delete the affix repeatedly, and to take an additional 
>> argument to limit how many affixes will be removed: YAGNI.
> 
> 
> That's simply not true, and I think it's clearly illustrated by the example I gave a few times. Not just conceivably, but FREQUENTLY I write code to accomplish the effect of the suggested:
> 
>   basename = fname.rstrip(('.jpg', '.gif', '.png'))
> 
> I probably do this MORE OFTEN than removing a single suffix.

Doing this with a for loop and without_suffix is fine though. Without without_suffix it's suddenly error prone. With a without_suffix that takes a typle it's unclear what happens without reading the code. 

I think a single string argument is a great sweet spot: avoid the most error prone part and keep the loop in user code.

/ Anders 
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