On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:00 AM computermaster360 . < computermaster...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I often find myself in a need of stripping only a specified amount of > characters from a string (most commonly a single character). I have been > implementing this in an ad-hoc manner, which is quite inelegant: > > def rstrip1(txt, chars): > if txt is None: > return None > elif any(txt.endswith(c) for c in chars): > return txt[:-1] > else: > return txt > > I would appreciate if str.split, str.lstrip, str.rsplit functions had a > `maxstrip` argument, similar to the `maxsplit` argument of `str.split`, > which would specify the maximum count of characters to be removed from the > string. In case of `str.split` this maximum would apply to each side of the > string separately. > Do you mean "str.strip, str.lstrip, str.rstrip"?
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