I think this would be useful, and doesn't break any backward compatibility. I would have use for it from time to time myself.
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:01 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. > > Am I the only one who is surprised such functionality is not implemented > already?? > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NSUFM4YA6E65ASDPJZPSJWBS2XEDRDFU/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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