On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:54 AM Christopher Barker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:08 AM Barry Scott <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> >>> Should `-+-+-+Spam'.stripprefix('-+')  remove just the first
>> occurence?  All of them?  Does it need a 'count' parameter?
>> >> The only ways to use this function without counting is remove 1 prefix
>> or remove all.
>>
>
Please, please. removeprefix/removesuffix do not need a count. The use case
is quite different from that of replace. And they should only remove (at
most) one prefix or suffix.

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