strip bug?

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:05 PM,  <baykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 'http://xthunder'.strip('http://')
> 'xthunder'
>>>> 'http://thunder'.strip('http://')
> 'under'
>>>>

This removes all leading and trailing occurrences of the characters in
the string 'http://', not the exact substring 'http://'. For that, use
either the str.replace method or slicing.

> I could understand backslash but forward slash?

I don't understand the question.