Ezio Melotti <[email protected]> added the comment: Yes, it is expected. When you call .strip() without args it strips the whitespaces, when you call with an arg it strips only what you specified. In this example: >>> s.strip('"') ' "Peter' the left " is not removed because there's a space in between, in this example: >>> s.strip().strip('"') 'Peter' you first remove the space and then the two ".
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