incorrect string documentation

[briancampbell]

BPO	639170
Nosy	@freddrake

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[briancampbell]

The documentation for string methods strip, lstrip, and rstrip appear as strip(s, [chars]), when none of
these methods take the optional chars argument. This affects both the string module documentation,
and the built-in string methods documentation. BTW, this would be a handy feature. Did it previously
exist?

[nnorwitz]

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This feature was added in 2.2. What version of python are
you using?

[freddrake]

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Erm, no, this was *not* available in 2.2.2. It appears to have
been added in 2.2.2 (why?). This warrants a documentation
fix for the r22-maint branch and the head, noting that this
feature was introduced in Python 2.2.2.

[freddrake]

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Ok, what I meant was that this feature was not available in
2.2 or 2.2.1; clearly it was added for 2.2.2.

This was committed in revisions 2.147.6.1 and 2.147.6.3.
Revision 2.147.6.2 was also a new feature for the 2.2 branch.

[freddrake]

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Fixed in Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex revisions 1.109 and 1.80.6.16.

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GH-137487 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.