[issue5318] strip, rstrip & lstrip bug

alexlc added the comment: Oh, thanks for letting me know and sorry for the trouble. I should had read the docs more carefully. I have actually been using for a long while the strip methods as I had described in the bug report. I was so completely convinced about this that I didn't even th

[issue5318] strip, rstrip & lstrip bug

New submission from alexlc : Examples of bad behaviour: >>> 'abacde'.lstrip('ab') 'cde' >>> 'abaaacde'.lstrip('ab') 'cde' >>> 'aabacde'.lstrip('aab') 'cde' >>> 'abc