On 25.02.2015 00:05, baykiwi at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 'http://xthunder'.strip('http://')
> 'xthunder'
>>>> 'http://thunder'.strip('http://')
> 'under'
>>>>
>
> I could understand backslash but forward slash?
>
You are misunderstanding what the argument to strip does. Look at this:
>>> 'http://xthunder'.strip('/hpt:')
'xthunder'