On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 07:14:16PM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote:
> I would prefer to raise ValueError("empty separator") to avoid any
> risk of confusion. I'm not sure that str.cutprefix("") or
> str.cutsuffix("") does make any sense.
They make as much sense as any other null-operation, such as subtracting
0 or deleting empty slices from lists.
Every string s is unchanged if you prepend or concatenate the empty
string:
assert s == ''+s == s+''
so removing the empty string should obey the same invariant:
assert s == s.removeprefix('') == s.removesuffix('')
--
Steven
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