From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:09:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make strip behave as documented. Will backport to 2.2.3.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3519
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f04610b497c733189212386152219040e18dacb;p=python

Make strip behave as documented. Will backport to 2.2.3.
---

diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index ec796f63ad..64e1190496 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ 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):