[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 616 -- String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes

[Dennis Sweeney]

Is there a proven use case for anything other than the empty string as the 
replacement? I prefer your "replacewhatever" to another "stripwhatever" name, 
and I think it's clear and nicely fits the behavior you proposed. But should we 
allow a naming convenience to dictate that the behavior should be generalized 
to a use case we're not sure exists, where the same same argument is passed 99% 
of the time? I think a downside would be that a 
pass-a-string-or-a-tuple-of-strings interface would be more mental effort to 
keep track of than a ``*args`` variadic interface for 
"(cut/remove/without/trim)prefix", even if the former is how ``startswith()`` 
works.
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