From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-22T11:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Should String#strip take a parameter?

Hi,

In message "Should String#strip take a parameter?"
    on 03/07/22, "Warren Brown" <wkb@airmail.net> writes:

|    If there is an interest in this, I can provide patches for 1.6.8 and/or
|the latest 1.8 snapshot.

We need to define the behavior first.  Python 2.3's strip takes a
parameter, but it strips off all characters in the string, i.e.

  a = "<><<>>>><abc>><><>"
  a.strip("<>")                # => "abc"

							matz.