Remove substring only at the end of string

Question

I have a bunch of strings, some of them have \' rec\'. I want to remove that only if those are the last 4 characters.

So in other words I have

Answer 1

def rchop(s, suffix):
    if suffix and s.endswith(suffix):
        return s[:-len(suffix)]
    return s

somestring = 'this is some string rec'
rchop(somestring, ' rec')  # returns 'this is some string'