> Steven D'Aprano:
>
> Stephen J. Turnbull:
>
>> And the bikeshedding isn't hard. In the list above, cutprefix/
>> cutsuffix are far and away the best.
>
> Well I'm glad we agree on that, even if nothing else :-)
I prefer “strip_prefix” because of the analogy to strip() which doesn’t do
anything if the characters aren’t present. Introducing a new word “cut” seems
unnecessary and confusing and I’d wager it will increase the probability of:
if s.startswith(‘foo’):
s = s.cutprefix(‘foo’)
Obviously this is a guess!
I also don’t understand why not using the underscore is preferable? It seems
just to be poor form.
/ Anders
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