Alex Grigoryev added the comment:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.lstrip
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Here should be clarified better. Yes I think API for explicit behavior should
be discussed, because the other way is this
In [1]: "ma...@gmail.com".split("mailto:";)[-1]
Out[1]: 'ma...@gmail.com'
In [2]: "maria@gmail.commailto:".split("mailto:";)[-1]
Out[2]: ''
On март 23 2019, at 10:39 вечера, Karthikeyan Singaravelan
wrote:
>
> Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment:
> https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=lstrip#str.lstrip
> > Return a copy of the string with leading 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; rather, all combinations of its values are
> > stripped:
> The last sentence talks about the report. In the given examples it strips all
> the given characters in chars from left until it finds a character that is
> not found as part of the given chars argument.
> In [2]: 'mailto:ma...@gmail.com'.lstrip('mailto:') # Stops at 'r' that
> doesn't need to be stripped
> Out[2]: 'r...@gmail.com'
>
> In [3]: 'mailto:ma...@gmail.com'.lstrip('ailto:') # 'm' is the first
> character and is not found in chars 'ailto:'
> Out[3]: 'mailto:ma...@gmail.com'
>
> Changing this would break a lot of old code and adding an API for two
> different behaviors would require a larger discussion. Perhaps did you find
> any part of docs that you would like to improve to clarify this better?
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