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string.strip behaves strangly #49689

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dwjang mannequin opened this issue Mar 8, 2009 · 3 comments
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string.strip behaves strangly #49689

dwjang mannequin opened this issue Mar 8, 2009 · 3 comments
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interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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dwjang mannequin commented Mar 8, 2009

BPO 5439
Nosy @loewis, @ezio-melotti

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title = 'string.strip behaves strangly'
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dwjang mannequin commented Mar 8, 2009 

Python 2.4.2 (#1, Mar  4 2008, 22:56:43)
[GCC 3.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> temp = "a/b/c"
>>> temp.strip("a")
'/b/c'
>>> temp.strip("a/")
'b/c'
>>> temp.strip("a/b")
'c'
>>> temp.strip("a/b/")
'c'
>>>

So, in the second command from the last, I expected '/c' but it gives
only 'c'.
Why? Is it a bug or a feature that I don't understand?

Thanks,
DW

@dwjang dwjang mannequin added interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Mar 8, 2009
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http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#string.strip

string.strip(s[, chars])
Return a copy of the string with leading and trailing characters

removed. If chars is omitted or None, whitespace characters are removed.
If given and not None, chars must be a string; the characters in the
string **will be stripped from the both ends** of the string this method
is called on.

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loewis mannequin commented Mar 8, 2009

It's a feature you don't understand. .strip() doesn't expect the
substring to be stripped, but a list of characters. Since the strip
characters contain /, all leading a,/,b characters get stripped (in any
order:

py> "////aaab/csdfhkab///c".strip("a/b")
'csdfhkab///c'

@loewis loewis mannequin closed this as completed Mar 8, 2009
@loewis loewis mannequin added the invalid label Mar 8, 2009
@ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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