[Python-ideas] New explicit methods to trim strings

[Anders Hovmöller]

> On 30 Mar 2019, at 11:21, Paul Moore
> 
> Note that the proposed name (trim) is IMO "poorly named", because a
> number of languages in my experience use that name for what Python
> calls "strip", so there would be continual confusion (for me at least)
> over which name meant which behaviour..

That isn't the proposal as it stands now. The consensus among those supporting the idea is "strip_prefix" and "strip_suffix". Let's debate that. 

/ Anders