On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:45:20 +0200, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb:
>> DRY/SPOT violation. Should be written as :
>>
>> prefix = 'http://'
>> if url.startswith(prefix):
>> url = url[len(prefix):]
>
> That was exactly my point. This formulation is a bit better, but it
> still violates DRY, because you need to type "prefix" two times. It is
> exactly this idiom that I see so often and that I wanted to simplify.
> Your suggestions work, but I somehow feel such a simple task should have
> a simpler formulation in Python, i.e. something like
>
> url = url.lstripstr(('http://', 'https://'))
I would prefer a name like `remove_prefix()` instead of a variant with
`strip` and abbreviations in it.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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