pretty strange behavior of "strip"

[Ned Deily]

In article <4938693F.6090709 at yahoo.ca>, Guy Doune <cesium5500 at yahoo.ca> 
wrote:
> Could it be a bug?????
> 
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
> [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> test=['03.html', '06.html', 'questions.html', '04.html', 
> 'toc.html', '01.html', '05.html', '07.html', '02.html', '08.html']
>  >>> test
> ['03.html', '06.html', 'questions.html', '04.html', 'toc.html', 
> '01.html', '05.html', '07.html', '02.html', '08.html']
>  >>> test[4]
> 'toc.html'
>  >>> test[4].strip('.html')
> 'oc'
> 
> Can't figure out what is going on, really.

>>> help("".strip)

>>> help("".endswith)

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org