[issue24204] string.strip() documentation is misleading

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

Indeed, the sentence that confused you was added because people were continually confused by the fact that doing:

   'foo.boo'.strip('.boo')

would result in 'f' rather than 'foo'.

We would welcome an improvement, but apparently this is very hard to make clear.

Repeating the mississippi example is probably a good idea.

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