Bugs item #1202395, was opened at 2005-05-15 13:50 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by tjreedy You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1202395&group_id=5470
Category: Documentation Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Roy Smith (roysmith) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Description of string.lstrip() needs improvement Initial Comment: In http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html, under lstrip(), it says, "chars must be a string; the characters in the string will be stripped from the beginning of the string this method is called on". It would be clearer if it said: "chars must be a string; the characters in the string constitute a set of characters to be stripped from the beginning of the string this method is called on". Similarly for rstrip() and strip(). There was a recent posting to comp.lang.python where it appears that the poster thought the argument to lstrip() was a leading string to be removed, not a set of characters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy) Date: 2005-05-18 21:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=593130 Over the years, several people have tripped over this and posted to c.l.p., so I think the existing text is unclear enough to arguably qualify as a buglet. In response to the same posting, I had the same thought of clarifying that the 'string' defines a set, so I support this suggestion or something similar ;-) and thank you for submitting it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Roy Smith (roysmith) Date: 2005-05-15 13:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=390499 I notice bug #1196824 (recently submitted and closed as "not a bug") relates to the same issue. It seems more than one person has gotten confused by this :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1202395&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
