> Eventually, removeprefix() and removesuffix() seemed to gain the upper hand, which is what Sweeney eventually switched to. Great naming...missed their chance

> Eventually, removeprefix() and removesuffix() seemed to gain the upper hand, which is what Sweeney eventually switched to. Great naming...missed their chance to make the functionality of strip/lstrip/rstrip more clear by name the new methods stripword/lstripword/rstripword. Which would also had the benefit of consistence.