This will only need a PEP if the eventual proposal is controversial. :-) Someone (Andrew Barnert?) has claimed that another name, like cut or trim, would be too confusing. I’m not sure I agree. I think strip_prefix is more confusing, and stripstr or strstrip would unnecessarily cut off the option of adding this to bytes. (Since bytes may be used for file names I think they should get this new capability too.)
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 16:10 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 03:33:49PM -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: > > > I think we should have a `stripstr()` as an alias for strip, and a new > > `stripchr()`. > > Shouldn't they be the other way around? > > `strip` removes chars from a set of chars; the proposed method will > remove a prefix/suffix. > > > > And I'm perfectly okay with bytes() not having those methods. ;-) > > If heavy users of bytes want these methods, they can request them > separately. There's no backwards compatibility requirement for new > string methods to be automatically added to bytes. > > I guess the question now is do we need a PEP? > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/I2PNEQFRKMBZNOBB4BNXEAASFPQ4727F/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido (mobile)
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