"joram gemma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on windows python 2.4.1 I have the following problem
>
> >>> s = 'D:\\music\\D\\Daniel Lanois\\For the beauty of Wynona'
> >>> print s
> D:\music\D\Daniel Lanois\For the beauty of Wynona
> >>> t = 'D:\\music\\D\\'
> >>> print t
> D:\music\D\
> >>> s.lstrip(t)
> 'aniel Lanois\\For the beauty of Wynona'
> >>>
>
> why does lstrip strip the D of Daniel Lanois also?
Because the argument to lstrip is a *set of characters* to delete, not a
string to delete. The string you passed it contained a 'D', so the 'D' got
stripped. Imagine lstrip was defined something like:
def lstrip (self, chars):
temp = self
while temp[0] in chars:
temp = temp[1:]
return temp
and you should get the idea. I don't think the documentation for lstrip
really makes this clear. I'm going to open a bug on the doc, and see what
happens :-)
I suspect what you really want to be doing is using the os.path module.
It's got functions for tearing pathnames apart into components, and hides
all the uglyness like whether / or \ is the directory separator on your
particular system.
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