All of this would be well served by a 3rd party library on PyPI. Strings already have plenty of methods (probably too many). Having `stringtools` would be nice to import a bunch of simple functions from.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:45 AM Alex Grigoryev <evr...@gmail.com> wrote: > strip_prefix and strip_suffix I think are the best names from all and work > perfectly with auto completion. Common use case: > > " mailto:ma...@gmail.com".strip().strip_prefix("mailto:";) > > > On Mar 25 2019, at 4:40 pm, Anders Hovmöller <bo...@killingar.net> wrote: > > > Earlier, Anders wrote: > I propose naming them strip_prefix() and strip_suffix() and just skip the > one that does both sides since it makes no sense to me. > > This is good, except I prefer subtract_prefix(a, b), truncate_suffix etc. > And for the two step process prefix_subtractor(a)(b) etc. > > > I don't understand the logic for "subtract". That's not a thing for > non-numbers. > > If you don't think "strip" is good, then I suggest "remove". Or one could > also consider "without" since we're talking about something that removes > /if present/ (making subtract even worse! Subtract doesn't stop at zero). > So "without_prefix()". > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > [image: Sent from Mailspring] > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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