str.strip() strange behavior

Question

>>> t1 = "abcd.org.gz"
>>> t1
\'abcd.org.gz\'
>>> t1.strip("g")
\'abcd.org.gz\'
>>> t1.strip("gz")
         


        

Answer 1

In Python 3.9, there are two new string methods .removeprefix() and .removesuffix() to remove the beginning or end of a string, respectively. Thankfully this time, the method names make it aptly clear what these methods are supposed to perform.

>>> print (sys.version)
3.9.0 
>>> t1 = "abcd.org.gz"
>>> t1.removesuffix('gz')
'abcd.org.'
>>> t1
'abcd.org.gz'
>>> t1.removesuffix('gz').removesuffix('.gz')
'abcd.org.'     # No unexpected effect from last removesuffix call