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Neil, I don't think this was implemented in the 2.2
maintenance branch. That's why I'm reopening this. At least
for my 2.2 Pythons string.strip accepts one parameter only:

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import string
>>> string.strip("test", "t")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: strip() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>>>

and

Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb  9 2003, 13:22:07)
[GCC 3.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20021119 (release)] on freebsd5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import string
>>> string.strip("test", "t")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: strip() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

Confused.