Just the first occurrence. The vast majority of the time, that's what
people want to do, and they will usually forget to add a 'count' parameter.
Many people probably wouldn't even know it exists. It would be disastrous
if code did the correct thing 99.9% of the time but occasionally silently
mutilated a string.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:06 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas <
python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
> Consider that the start or end of a string may contain repetitions of an
> affix.
>
> Should `-+-+-+Spam'.stripprefix('-+') remove just the first occurence?
> All of them? Does it need a 'count' parameter?
>
> [all modulo bikeshedding on the names of course]
>
> Rob Cliffe
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