On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:58 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. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
rstrip strips a given set of characters, not a specific string. '-dir' contains d, so the trailing d is also stripped. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list