Bugs item #1104923, was opened at 2005-01-18 19:58
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Category: Python Library
>Group: Not a Bug
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Rick Coupland (rcouplan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Bug in String rstrip method
Initial Comment:
There appears to be a data sensitive bug in the string rstrip
method as demonstrated by the following code:
>>> "ecigrcal.fle".rstrip(".fle")
'ecigrca'
As you can see, it is striping an extra character.
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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2005-01-18 20:56
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Yes, dsm001 is right. The argument is treated as a _set_ of
characters to be stripped, not as a literal string. This is a
natural generalization of .rstrip() without any characters,
which chops off all whitespace characters (no matter how
many there, and no matter what order they appear in).
Passing an argument just changes the set of characters it
deletes.
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Comment By: DSM (dsm001)
Date: 2005-01-18 20:51
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I don't think this is a bug. The documentation for the
rstrip method reads:
rstrip(...)
S.rstrip([chars]) -> string or unicode
Return a copy of the string S with trailing whitespace
removed.
If chars is given and not None, remove characters in
chars instead.
When you pass the method ".rle", you're telling it to treat
the four characters ".", "r", "l", and "e" as trailing
whitespace and remove them from the right side of the
string. That's why it removes the extra "l".
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