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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:16:57 -0700
Subject: 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.