pretty strange behavior of "strip"

[Mark Tolonen]

<rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote in message 
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0812050945320.1160 at kimball.webabinitio.net...
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 at 20:54, Terry Reedy wrote:
[snip]
> I have often wished that in 'split' I could specify a _set_ of characters
> on which the string would be split, in the same way the default list
> of whitespace characters causes a split where any one (or more) of
> them appears.  But instead the string argument is a multi-character
> separator.  (Which is sometimes useful and I wouldn't want to lose the
> ability to specify a multi-character separator!)

>>> import re
>>> re.split('[,.]','blah,blah.blah')
['blah', 'blah', 'blah']

-Mark