On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 4:35:37 AM UTC+5:30, bay...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> 'http://xthunder'.strip('http://') > 'xthunder' > >>> 'http://thunder'.strip('http://') > 'under' > >>> > > I could understand backslash but forward slash?
Others have answered specifically. However you probably want to look at urlparse https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list