Routinely used function in Python .strip() has a slight nuance to it that I
learned only today. By default, the function strips the whitespace and newline
characters from both the ends of a supplied string. For example,
ex = " Hello World\n"
ex.strip()
# "Hello World"Alternatively, one can use a specific character that needs to be trimmed off
the sides of the string. For example, a / or \r\n or .. Following this, I
was under the impression that using a string phrase would work the same and it
would remove that phrase from the ends of the string. Something like this:
ex = "//Hello World"
ex.strip('/') # "Hello World"
ex.strip('World') # "//Hello "However, the last example, though looks innocous, works not the way I thought
it does. strip() actually treats the string argument as a list of characters
and removes them one-by-one from the terminals of the string until it doesn't
find a match!
ex = "Hello World"
ex.strip('World') # "Hello "
ex.strip('Worl') # "Hello World"
ex.strip('dWorl') # "Hello "
I guess I need to pay more attention.