On 19May2020 15:43, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like = is not acceptable in
the
final result, so it's not enough to remove only 2 of 4 ='s. You want to
make sure nothing messed up your string. So if the code existed, what you'd
want is:
```
assert salt.count("=") <= 2
salt = salt.rstrip("=", "")
assert "=" not in salt
```
I think the code I'd want, if the new parameter existed, would be:
salt = salt.rstrip("=", maxstrip=2)
assert not salt.endswith("=")
Reiterating the Python 3.9 suggestion, what about:
salt2 = salt.cutsuffix(('==', '='))
I appreciate this isn't as _general_ as a maxstrip param, but it seems
to neatly address the single use case you've found.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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