Interesting... I tried this on three machines Windows/Python 2.4.3, FC4/Python 2.4.3, Ubuntu/Python 2.5.1 and I saw the same thing for each... It's apparently not a three character issue but rather related to specific characters (e, n, o, r, t). A further test revealed that this affects one additional character... the . (period/dot) character.
Here's what I did to test it: for i in range(97,123): x = 'ab' + chr(i) + '.torrent' y = x.rstrip('.torrent') print ('Before: %s (%d)\tAfter: %s (%d)' % (x, len(x), y, len(y) ) ) Before: abcdefga.torrent (16) After: abcdefga (8) Before: abcdefgb.torrent (16) After: abcdefgb (8) Before: abcdefgc.torrent (16) After: abcdefgc (8) Before: abcdefgd.torrent (16) After: abcdefgd (8) Before: abcdefge.torrent (16) After: abcdefg (7) Before: abcdefgf.torrent (16) After: abcdefgf (8) Before: abcdefgg.torrent (16) After: abcdefgg (8) Before: abcdefgh.torrent (16) After: abcdefgh (8) Before: abcdefgi.torrent (16) After: abcdefgi (8) Before: abcdefgj.torrent (16) After: abcdefgj (8) Before: abcdefgk.torrent (16) After: abcdefgk (8) Before: abcdefgl.torrent (16) After: abcdefgl (8) Before: abcdefgm.torrent (16) After: abcdefgm (8) Before: abcdefgn.torrent (16) After: abcdefg (7) Before: abcdefgo.torrent (16) After: abcdefg (7) Before: abcdefgp.torrent (16) After: abcdefgp (8) Before: abcdefgq.torrent (16) After: abcdefgq (8) Before: abcdefgr.torrent (16) After: abcdefg (7) Before: abcdefgs.torrent (16) After: abcdefgs (8) Before: abcdefgt.torrent (16) After: abcdefg (7) Before: abcdefgu.torrent (16) After: abcdefgu (8) Before: abcdefgv.torrent (16) After: abcdefgv (8) Before: abcdefgw.torrent (16) After: abcdefgw (8) Before: abcdefgx.torrent (16) After: abcdefgx (8) Before: abcdefgy.torrent (16) After: abcdefgy (8) Before: abcdefgz.torrent (16) After: abcdefgz (8) Before: aba.torrent (11) After: aba (3) Before: abb.torrent (11) After: abb (3) Before: abc.torrent (11) After: abc (3) Before: abd.torrent (11) After: abd (3) Before: abe.torrent (11) After: ab (2) Before: abf.torrent (11) After: abf (3) Before: abg.torrent (11) After: abg (3) Before: abh.torrent (11) After: abh (3) Before: abi.torrent (11) After: abi (3) Before: abj.torrent (11) After: abj (3) Before: abk.torrent (11) After: abk (3) Before: abl.torrent (11) After: abl (3) Before: abm.torrent (11) After: abm (3) Before: abn.torrent (11) After: ab (2) Before: abo.torrent (11) After: ab (2) Before: abp.torrent (11) After: abp (3) Before: abq.torrent (11) After: abq (3) Before: abr.torrent (11) After: ab (2) Before: abs.torrent (11) After: abs (3) Before: abt.torrent (11) After: ab (2) Before: abu.torrent (11) After: abu (3) Before: abv.torrent (11) After: abv (3) Before: abw.torrent (11) After: abw (3) Before: abx.torrent (11) After: abx (3) Before: aby.torrent (11) After: aby (3) Before: abz.torrent (11) After: abz (3) On 11/22/07, kyo guan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi : > > Please look at this code: > > >>> 'exe.torrent'.rstrip('.torrent') > 'ex' <----- it should be 'exe', why? > > but this is a right answer: > > >>> '120.exe'.rstrip('.exe') > '120' <------ this is a right value. > > there is a bug in the rstrip, lstrip there isn't this problem. > > > > Kyo. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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