Guy Doune wrote:
Hi everybody,
Could it be a bug?????
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> test=['03.html', '06.html', 'questions.html', '04.html',
'toc.html', '01.html', '05.html', '07.html', '02.html', '08.html']
>>> test
['03.html', '06.html', 'questions.html', '04.html', 'toc.html',
'01.html', '05.html', '07.html', '02.html', '08.html']
>>> test[4]
'toc.html'
>>> test[4].strip('.html')
'oc'
Can't figure out what is going on, really.
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip
str.strip([chars])
Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing characters
removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be
removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace.
The chars argument is not a prefix or suffix; rather, all combinations of its
values are stripped:
>>> ' spacious '.strip()
'spacious'
>>> 'www.example.com'.strip('cmowz.')
'example'
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