Colin J. Williams wrote:
> Return a copy of the string with the
> leading and trailing characters removed.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Only the last two examples below behave
> as expected.
They all looks OK to me.
> [Dbg]>>> 'ab$%\n\rcd'.strip('%')
> 'ab$%\n\rcd'
No "%" at the beginning or end of string. Nothing changed.
> [Dbg]>>> 'ab$%cd'.strip('$')
> 'ab$%\n\rcd'
No "$" at the beginning or end of string. Nothing changed. I believe that
you didn't copy this from the standard input due to the presence of "\r\n"
on the answer...
> [Dbg]>>> 'ab$%cd'.strip('$')
> 'ab$%cd'
No "$" at the beginning or end of string. Nothing changed.
> [Dbg]>>> ' ab$%cd '.strip('$')
> ' ab$%cd '
No "$" at the beginning or end of string. Nothing changed.
> [Dbg]>>> ' ab$%cd '.strip('%')
> ' ab$%cd '
No "%" at the beginning or end of string. Nothing changed.
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