[Python-Dev] str.strip() enhancement

Sun Sep 4 00:20:52 CEST 2005

"Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:
>> [Jonny Reichwald]
> > I would like to suggest a small enhancement to str.strip().
> > By expanding its current form, where it only takes a char list, to
> > taking any list containing either char lists or string lists, it is
> > possible to remove entire words from the stripped string.
> . . .
>> > Would this be useful for anyone else besides me?
>> Probably not.

There is also the point that this functionality is a 4-line function...
def trim_endings(strng, endings):
 for ending in endings:
 if ending and string.endswith(ending):
 return strng[:-len(ending)]
 - Josiah