Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
It's a feature you don't understand. .strip() doesn't expect the
substring to be stripped, but a list of characters. Since the strip
characters contain /, all leading a,/,b characters get stripped (in any
order:
py> "////aaab/csdfhkab///c".strip("a/b")
'csdfhkab///c'
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nosy: +loewis
resolution: -> invalid
status: open -> closed
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