From 49042041589dbebc1265bb878e6f00e5e1e9ef15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:59:05 +0000
Subject: News for strip methods.

---
 Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 62a4828..d3ed145 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- String methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take an optional
+  argument that specifies the characters to strip.  For example,
+  "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo".
+
 - Added a new dict method pop(key).  This removes and returns the
   value corresponding to key.  [SF patch #539949]
 
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