Re: strip bug?

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:05 PM,  <baykiwi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 'http://xthunder'.strip('http://')
> 'xthunder'
>>>> 'http://thunder'.strip('http://')
> 'under'
>>>>

This removes all leading and trailing occurrences of the characters in
the string 'http://', not the exact substring 'http://'. For that, use
either the str.replace method or slicing.

> I could understand backslash but forward slash?

I don't understand the question.

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strip bug? baykiwi@gmail.com - 2015-02-24 15:05 -0800
  Re: strip bug? Eduardo <xcesar@gmail.com> - 2015-02-24 15:15 -0800
  Re: strip bug? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-24 16:16 -0700
  Re: strip bug? Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-02-25 00:19 +0100
  Re: strip bug? Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2015-02-25 00:25 +0100
  Re: strip bug? Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2015-02-24 15:22 -0800
  Re: strip bug? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 03:03 -0800
  Re: strip bug? babyG <bintadoma20@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-27 04:18 -0600

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