On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:54 AM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:08 AM Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> >>> Should `-+-+-+Spam'.stripprefix('-+') remove just the first occurence?
>>> >>> All of them? Does it need a 'count' parameter?
>>> >> The only ways to use this function without counting is remove 1 prefix
>>> >> or remove all.
>
>
> Please, please. removeprefix/removesuffix do not need a count. The use case
> is quite different from that of replace. And they should only remove (at
> most) one prefix or suffix.
+1 from me. These should be simple functions to remove a prefix/suffix
(note "a prefix" = "one prefix"). Let's not over-engineer them.
I've needed to remove one prefix/suffix. I've never needed to remove
more than one.
Paul
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