From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:11:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make strip work as documented.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.3c1~242
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d86997d24876e1210a3217addcf91434bbd59c2d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Make strip work as documented.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index cd9909e26617..c87ffb4783f3 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@ def swapcase(s):
     return s.swapcase()
 
 # Strip leading and trailing tabs and spaces
-def strip(s):
+def strip(s, chars=None):
     """strip(s) -> string
 
     Return a copy of the string s with leading and trailing
     whitespace removed.
 
     """
-    return s.strip()
+    return s.strip(chars)
 
 # Strip leading tabs and spaces
 def lstrip(s):