From: Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 03:31:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update the docstring to match the code.  Will backport.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3427
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a4864a24646185b336988196c650a85601a5e04a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Update the docstring to match the code.  Will backport.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 64e119049606..021469c78c7b 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ def swapcase(s):
 
 # Strip leading and trailing tabs and spaces
 def strip(s, chars=None):
-    """strip(s) -> string
+    """strip(s [,chars]) -> string
 
     Return a copy of the string s with leading and trailing
     whitespace removed.
+    If chars is given and not None, remove characters in sep instead.
+    If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping.
 
     """
     return s.strip(chars)