David (or somebody else) could you give us some, as real as possible, examples? This will strengthen the case for it!
I am confident they exist and are pretty plentiful but I myself am coming up blank thinking about it for a few minutes and documenting them would be good for discussion. On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 18:59, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > I think this would be useful, and doesn't break any backward > compatibility. I would have use for it from time to time myself. > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:01 AM computermaster360 . < > computermaster...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I often find myself in a need of stripping only a specified amount of >> characters from a string (most commonly a single character). I have been >> implementing this in an ad-hoc manner, which is quite inelegant: >> >> def rstrip1(txt, chars): >> if txt is None: >> return None >> elif any(txt.endswith(c) for c in chars): >> return txt[:-1] >> else: >> return txt >> >> I would appreciate if str.split, str.lstrip, str.rsplit functions had a >> `maxstrip` argument, similar to the `maxsplit` argument of `str.split`, >> which would specify the maximum count of characters to be removed from the >> string. In case of `str.split` this maximum would apply to each side of the >> string separately. >> >> Am I the only one who is surprised such functionality is not implemented >> already?? >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/NSUFM4YA6E65ASDPJZPSJWBS2XEDRDFU/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > -- > The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the > not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse > the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, > become abortifacients against new conceptions. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ZRR3MEKM336G3P3744V6JLFFNPWW7A7N/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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