Bug in string.lstrip?

[Michael Hudson]

Brian <brian at nospam.com> writes:

> Hello - has anyone else had trouble with string.lstrip stripping too
> much? Here's what I get (Python 2.3.4):
> 
>  >>> import string
>  >>> string.lstrip("test/one/two/a.b.c", "test/one/")
> 'wo/a.b.c'
>  >>> string.lstrip("test/one/two/a.b.c", "test/one")
> 'wo/a.b.c'
>  >>> string.lstrip("test/one/two/a.b.c", "test/one/tw")
> 'a.b.c'
>  >>>
> 
> Similar things happened with the strip() string method. Am I missing
> something, or should I file a bug report?

Strip considers the second parameter as a *set* of characters to
remove.

Cheers,
mwh

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