[issue24445] rstrip strips what it doesn't have to

Changes by Zachary Ware : -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue24445] rstrip strips what it doesn't have to

Martin Panter added the comment: The 3.5 documentation of str.strip() was recently modified in Issue 24204 due to this kind of misunderstanding. Perhaps other versions should be modified as well, or the str.l/rstrip() methods, or the bytes() and bytearray() methods. See also Issue 23560 propos

[issue24445] rstrip strips what it doesn't have to

o1da added the comment: Ok, thank you. I thought it trims whole sequence or nothing. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24445] rstrip strips what it doesn't have to

Patrick Maupin added the comment: Example >>> text = 'test1/1.jp2' >>> text.rstrip('.2jp') 'test1/1' -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue24445] rstrip strips what it doesn't have to

Patrick Maupin added the comment: I think you misunderstand rstrip -- it works from the right, and checks to see if the right-most character is in the string you have given it. As long as it is, then it will remove the character and loop -- nosy: +Patrick Maupin _

[issue24445] rstrip strips what it doesn't have to

New submission from o1da: Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> text = 'test1/1.jp2' >>> text.rstrip('.jp2') 'test1/1' >>> text = 'test1.jp2' >>> text.rstrip('.jp2') 'test1' >>> text = 'test1