Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment:
The methods works as designed and documented. The arguments to str.strip,
lstrip, and rstrip methods are not prefixes / suffixes. They are sets of
characters.
>>> "bad".lstrip("ab")
'd'
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=lstrip#str.lstrip
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nosy: +christian.heimes
resolution: -> not a bug
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
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