Attempt to make all the various string *strip methods the same.

 * Doc - add doc for when functions were added
 * UserString
 * string object methods
 * string module functions
'chars' is used for the last parameter everywhere.

These changes will be backported, since part of the changes
have already been made, but they were inconsistent.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index ac4ad04..0425b1b 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -1770,12 +1770,12 @@ do_argstrip(PyStringObject *self, int striptype, PyObject *args)
 
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(strip__doc__,
-"S.strip([sep]) -> string or unicode\n\
+"S.strip([chars]) -> string or unicode\n\
 \n\
 Return a copy of the string S with leading and trailing\n\
 whitespace removed.\n\
-If sep is given and not None, remove characters in sep instead.\n\
-If sep is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping");
+If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.\n\
+If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_strip(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -1788,11 +1788,11 @@ string_strip(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(lstrip__doc__,
-"S.lstrip([sep]) -> string or unicode\n\
+"S.lstrip([chars]) -> string or unicode\n\
 \n\
 Return a copy of the string S with leading whitespace removed.\n\
-If sep is given and not None, remove characters in sep instead.\n\
-If sep is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping");
+If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.\n\
+If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_lstrip(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -1805,11 +1805,11 @@ string_lstrip(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(rstrip__doc__,
-"S.rstrip([sep]) -> string or unicode\n\
+"S.rstrip([chars]) -> string or unicode\n\
 \n\
 Return a copy of the string S with trailing whitespace removed.\n\
-If sep is given and not None, remove characters in sep instead.\n\
-If sep is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping");
+If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.\n\
+If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_rstrip(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)