rstrip()

[Ken Watford]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jason Friedman <jason at powerpull.net> wrote:
> $ python
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec  7 2009, 18:43:55)
> [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> "x.vsd-dir".rstrip("-dir")
> 'x.vs'
>
> I expected 'x.vsd' as a return value.
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rstrip strips a given set of characters, not a specific string. '-dir'
contains d, so the trailing d is also stripped.