[ILUG] Python strip "]" from string

[Justin Kelly]

I just ran python and did the following:

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Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:40) 
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = 'hel[lo]'
>>> a
'hel[lo]'
>>> a.strip("[")
'hel[lo]'
>>> a.strip("]")
'hel[lo'
>>> a.strip("\[")
'hel[lo]'
>>> b = "hel[lo]"
>>> b
'hel[lo]'
>>> b.strip("[")
'hel[lo]'
>>> b.strip("]")
'hel[lo'
>>> a='hel[lo]o'
>>> a.strip("[")
'hel[lo]o'
>>> a.strip("]")
'hel[lo]o'
>>> b="[hello]"
>>> b.strip("]")
'[hello'
>>> b.strip("[")
'hello]'
>>> 

It appears strip only strips the first or last characters if they are the same
as the one passed in the function.

JK

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>Hello,
>For some reason Python refuses to strip a square bracket from a string:

>string = "[test]"


>string.strip("[") works fine
>string.strip("]") refuses to work


>If i do a test in IDLE it works fine!

>I must be missing something.


>Thanks,
>Oliver.