Apply ruff/flake8-bugbear rule B005

B005 Using `.strip()` with multi-character strings is misleading

Author: DimitriPapadopoulos

numpy/f2py/crackfortran.py

@@ -2539,7 +2539,7 @@ def get_parameters(vars, global_params={}):
                 outmess(f'get_parameters[TODO]: '
                         f'implement evaluation of complex expression {v}\n')
 
-            dimspec = ([s.lstrip('dimension').strip()
+            dimspec = ([s.removeprefix('dimension').strip()
                         for s in vars[n]['attrspec']
                        if s.startswith('dimension')] or [None])[0]
 

numpy/lib/_datasource.py

@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ def _sanitize_relative_path(self, path):
             last = path
             # Note: os.path.join treats '/' as os.sep on Windows
             path = path.lstrip(os.sep).lstrip('/')
-            path = path.lstrip(os.pardir).lstrip('..')
+            path = path.lstrip(os.pardir).removeprefix('..')
             drive, path = os.path.splitdrive(path)  # for Windows
         return path
 

numpy/lib/tests/test_loadtxt.py

@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ def test_str_dtype_unit_discovery_with_converter():
     expected = np.array(
         ["spam-a-lot"] * 60000 + ["tis_but_a_scratch"], dtype="U17"
     )
-    conv = lambda s: s.strip("XXX")
+    conv = lambda s: s.removeprefix("XXX")
 
     # file-like path
     txt = StringIO("\n".join(data))