On 13.10.2021 20:47, Paul Moore wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:02, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > >> So aside from filename extensions, what are the real use cases for >> suffix removal? Plurals? No, too locale-dependent and too many >> exceptions. Whitespace left over from external data? No, there's >> already other functions for that (and regexen and actual parsers if >> they're not good enough). Directory traversal? No, that's what path >> instances and the os module are for. > > I think this is a good point. Is removesuffix really useful enough to > warrant having an operator *as well as* a string method? It was only > added in 3.9, so we've been managing without it at all for years, > after all...
Sure, but that's not evidence that this kind of operation is not common. Some examples: - removal of file extensions - removal of end tags - removal of units - removal of currencies - removal of standard suffixes - removal of wildcard patterns etc. I find lots of such uses in the code bases I work with. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Oct 13 2021) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Support ... https://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Product Development ... https://consulting.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 https://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ https://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/L66YTUILBF2RUVVPGDQIBZCHKUPWQSHS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
