Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
Generally, we don't make changes that would break existing code relying on the
documented and tested behavior.
If you would like to propose a new method, the python-ideas mailing list would
be a good place to start.
>>> s[len('mailto:'):] if s.startswith
Alex Grigoryev added the comment:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.lstrip
(https://link.getmailspring.com/link/4c83e422-2f29-440a-8ce3-0ae8b13f5...@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.python.org%2F2%2Flibrary%2Fstring.html%23string.lstrip&recipient=cmVwb3J0QGJ1Z3
Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment:
https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=lstrip#str.lstrip
> Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed. The chars
> argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If
> omitted or None, the
New submission from Alex Grigoryev :
These methods have confusing implicit behavior. I propose to make it explicit,
either strip the exact sequence or chars or leave the string as is.
In [1]: 'mailto:ma...@gmail.com'.lstrip('mailto')
Out[1]: ':ma...@gmail.com'
In [2]: 'mailto:ma...@gmail.com'
