On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
+1 from me. These should be simple functions to remove a prefix/suffix (note "a prefix" = "one prefix"). Let's not over-engineer them. I've needed to remove one prefix/suffix. I've never needed to remove more than one. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PCXX2E77MJTXKMTZDNUMMRV6BMZMUY3N/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
