string.strip

[Duncan Booth]

Stano Paska <paska at kios.sk> wrote in news:mailman.1036744990.32317.python-
list at python.org:

> in documentation: string.strip(s[, chars])
> but in real life strip takes only 1 parameter
> 
> I have python 2.2.2

There seems to be a mistake in the documentation for the string module. The 
simplest solution is to stop using the string module for most purposes, use 
the strip method on strings as that works as advertised:

>>> "--ccc--".strip("-")
'ccc'
>>> 

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?