[issue21283] A escape character is used when a REGEXP is an argument of "strip" string function

New submission from Tito Bouzout: Hello! I got a report that the character "\" was removed from a string using the following code > "\\server\path\to".strip(r'"\'<>') At first insight, looks like a bug, because I don't expect the use of

[issue21283] A escape character is used when a REGEXP is an argument of "strip" string function

Tito Bouzout added the comment: Thanks guys for the information! Is still weird to me that the escape character is used, but well ! Will remember this bug. Kind regards, -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue21