PEP proposal: enhanced string functions

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 14-Nov-2001 Matthew Dixon Cowles wrote:
 >  I'd prefer to be able to pass a sequence to strip() and have
 >  any of those characters stripped.

On 14-Nov-2001 Oliver Fromme wrote:
 >  For the center() case, it might be useful to optionally
 >  allow another argument, so you can have different padding
 >  on the left and on the right.
 >  
 >  Example:
 > >>> string.center(" Title ", 25, ">", "<")
 >  '>>>>>>>>> Title <<<<<<<<<'

To conform with Matthew's proposal about strip(), you might want to use
the same argument for left and right padding in center(), as in

>>> string.center(" Title ", 25, "><")
 '>>>>>>>>> Title <<<<<<<<<'


/Mikael

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