string() - Is this some kind of sick joke?

[Andrew Koenig]

Daniel> Observe from the 2.2.2 interpreter (and 2.2.1 in HPUX):

     >>> y="'hello'"
     >>> import string
     >>> string.strip(y,"'")
     Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
     TypeError: strip() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

On the other hand, the following works just fine:

     >>> y = "'hello'"
     >>> str.strip(y,"'")
     'hello'

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