On 08Mar2020 00:17, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
On 2020-03-07 23:01, Cameron Simpson wrote:
I'm somewhat against "strip" in the name, because Python's plain
"strip"
methods act like PHP and Go trim methods: they strip multiple
characters, not fixed strings.
My own preference (and personal library use) is cutprefix and cutsuffix.
Go's Trim strips multiple characters, but, as far as I can tell from
the docs, TrimPrefix and TrimSuffix strip a single prefix/suffix
string.
And right there is the confusion I'd rather avoid. I'd like the affix
stuff to have a different name because it behaves differently.
We've got strip, lstrip and rstrip with common "strip multiple
characters" actions. I think fixed affixes are different enough to
warrant a differently spelled name.
I hope we can agree to at least avoid using the word "trim", for similar
reasons.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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