Simon Brunning wrote:
>
> The .split method on strings splits at whitespace by default, but takes an
> optional argument allowing splitting by other strings. The .strip method
> (and its siblings) always strip whitespace - on more than one occasion I
> would have found it useful if these methods also took an optional argument
> allowing other strings to be stripped. For example, to strip, say, asterisks
> from a file you could do:
>
> >>>fred = '**word**word**'
> >>>fred.strip('*')
> word**word
>
> Does this sound sensible/useful?
I've never seen a case where this was wanted except to delete *all* such
characters. string.translate() does that, but in an awkward way.
Perhaps a wrapper for string.translate() might make sense, called
something like string.delete().
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