[Python-ideas] Re: str.strip: argument maxstrip

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[Python-ideas] str.strip: argument maxstrip

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)