Tim Johnson wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm seeing some strange behavior with lstrip operating
> on string representations of *nix-style file paths
> Example:
>
>>>> s = '/home/test/'
>>>> s1 = s.lstrip('/home')
>>>> s1
>>>>
> 'test/' ## '/test/' was expected! '/' was unexpectedly removed
>
Hi Tim,
I believe you've misunderstood how lstrip works. The sequence passed to
the lstrip() method is a list of characters to remove from the string,
not a string to match as a unit:
>>> s1 = 'aaaaabbbbbcccccc'
>>> s1.lstrip( 'ab' )
'cccccc'
In your example, since the '/' character is in the list to strip, the
second slash goes with it.
Hope that helps,
e.
> Any comments or corrective measures are welcome
> thanks
> Tim
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