Ulf Rompe <u...@rompe.org> added the comment:
Using a re.sub() call as documentation: 1. wouldn't be helpful for many developers. If they need to look up the documentation of a simple method they shouldn't be forced to learn about a more complex one as well to understand it. 2. would be wild guessing since the re module defines its own whitespace as well. I have created a pull request that aligns the strip methods of bytearray to those of bytes objects. The implementation found there is cleaner and even a little bit faster. Current master: ./python -m timeit -s 'bla = bytearray(b" foo ")' 'bla.lstrip()' 1000000 loops, best of 5: 245 nsec per loop ./python -m timeit -s 'bla = bytearray(b" foo ")' 'bla.rstrip()' 1000000 loops, best of 5: 245 nsec per loop ./python -m timeit -s 'bla = bytearray(b" foo ")' 'bla.strip()' 1000000 loops, best of 5: 260 nsec per loop Using my patch: ./python -m timeit -s 'bla = bytearray(b" foo ")' 'bla.lstrip()' 1000000 loops, best of 5: 235 nsec per loop ./python -m timeit -s 'bla = bytearray(b" foo ")' 'bla.rstrip()' 1000000 loops, best of 5: 235 nsec per loop ./python -m timeit -s 'bla = bytearray(b" foo ")' 'bla.strip()' 1000000 loops, best of 5: 239 nsec per loop I have also updated the documentation, adding "whitespace" to the glossary and linking to it from many places in the documentation of standard types. ---------- nosy: +rompe _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue25433> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
