It seems to me that a few things are flawed in the standard distribution. Little things like the overlooking of adding a method or function to decimal for returning an instance with x places right of the decimal. I know of quantize, but that's junk and not simple. Also why shouldn't string methods include stuff like lstrip which do precisely what I request?
Maybe because they don't want to bother putting
def mylstrip(string,stripstring): return string[len(stripstring):]
as a method or something? Messy, just plain messy.
Jacob Schmidt
Jacob S. wrote:
I don't know who's going crazy here... but I checked that straight from the python 2.4 interpreter...
>>> a = "go on long buddy" >>> a.lstrip('gonl') ' on long buddy' >>> a.lstrip('gonl ') 'buddy' >>>
Note that in the second case, I've included a space in the lstrip() parameter. lstrip() is essentially saying "remove all leading characters until you find a character that's not in this sequence" -- a space counts as a character. (Took me trying it out before I saw this, so don't feel bad. ;) )
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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