Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > I wrote a handy-dandy function (see below) called "strip_pairs" for > stripping > matching pairs of characters from the beginning and end of a string. This > function works, but I would like to be able to invoke it as a string > method > rather than as a function. Is this possible?
This requires a feature called "open classes" (Ruby has them). It is not possible in Python, at least for built-in types like str. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
