From c11ee1efffb2e5674ff30a8f9e65808b2fd0fe2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:21:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] News for new strip method argument. Made the news message a
 bit more informative.

---
 Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ee089d319786..135c9f245f46 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ Core and builtins
   great many cyclic structures involving frames.  Reported on
   SourceForge as bug 543148.
 
+- String methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take an optional
+  argument that specifies the characters to strip.  For example,
+  "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". In addition, "200L".strip("L") 
+  will return "200". This is useful for replacing code that assumed
+  longs will always be printed with a trailing "L".
+
 Library
 
 
-- 
2.47.3