rstrip()

[News123]

MRAB wrote:
> News123 wrote:
>> Thomas Jollans wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> string.rstrip( [ '-dir' ] )
>>>> or  as
>>>> string.rstrip( '-dir' )
>>> The former should certainly raise an exception. '-dir' is not a single
>>> character !
>>> Or it should actually strip '-dir', or '-dir-dir', but not 'r--i'... but
>>> that's just silly.
>>>
>> It's silly with the example of '-dir' it's much less silly with
>> a string like ' \t'.
>>
>> The doc is rather clear about it:
>> str.rstrip([chars])
>>
>> It is marked 'chars' and not 'suffix'
>>
>> The textual description is even clearer:
>> "The chars argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its
>> values are stripped:"
>>
>>
>> When  I asked in this grpup about a way of how to strip off a prefix I
>> never even considered strip as a solution having read the doc before.
>>
>> I also think, that the functionality of strip / rstrip is useful as is.
>>
>>
>> It would just be great to have functions to strip  prefixes/suffixes.
>> If these new commands were alphabetically next to the classic  commands,
>> ( e.g. strip_prefix / rstrip_suffix)  then almost everybody looking for
>> string functions would probably use the function, which is appropriate
>> for his purpose.
>>
>> Breaking backwardscompatibility within python 3 might not be the best
>> choice.
>>
> [snip]
> How about 'strip_str', 'lstrip_str' and 'rstrip_str', or something
> similar?

sounds reasonable to me