On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Jason Friedman <ja...@powerpull.net>wrote:
> $ python > Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55) > [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> "x.vsd-dir".rstrip("-dir") > 'x.vs' > > I expected 'x.vsd' as a return value. > rstrip([chars]) The chars are stripped from right. Here it's ['-', 'd','i','r'] , hence these 4 characters will be stripped from right, so you are left with 'x.vs'
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