Dan Sommers wrote:
without_prefix without_suffixThey're a little longer, but IMO "without" helps reenforce the immutability of the underlying string.
We don't seem to worry about that distinction for other string methods, such as lstrip and rstrip. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/