pretty strange behavior of "strip"
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 4 20:54:28 EST 2008
Guy Doune wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> 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.
What I can't figure out is why, when people cannot figure out what is
going on with a function (or methods in this case), they do not look it
up the doc. (If you are an exception and did, what confused you?) Can
you enlighten me?
tjr
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