On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:02, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
> So aside from filename extensions, what are the real use cases for > suffix removal? Plurals? No, too locale-dependent and too many > exceptions. Whitespace left over from external data? No, there's > already other functions for that (and regexen and actual parsers if > they're not good enough). Directory traversal? No, that's what path > instances and the os module are for. I think this is a good point. Is removesuffix really useful enough to warrant having an operator *as well as* a string method? It was only added in 3.9, so we've been managing without it at all for years, after all... Paul _______________________________________________ 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/WFS5LM2ZMBUZS7VWELVIFHRNPYXYZN5I/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
