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Can someone please do this? Shouldn't the print command print There is a space. Here it is skipping as well while it should not. TIA

MisterMiyagi
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Nishanth Nair
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    `str.rstrip()` interprets its argument to be a collection of characters you want removed. `'queue'.rstrip('eu')` results in `'q'`. If you're using Python 3.9+ it you can do `some_sentence.removesuffix('at the end')`. – Steven Rumbalski Aug 18 '22 at 19:22
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    "*Can someone please do this?*" Do *what*, exactly? [ask] – esqew Aug 18 '22 at 19:23
  • _The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed._ ([docs](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.rstrip)). So it doesn't remove the string, but all chars that it contains. – bereal Aug 18 '22 at 19:23
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    This has bitten me before and I've been working with python for a long time now. The [current answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/73408470/2089675) suggesting `removesuffix` is exactly the solution that worked for me in the past and is the recommended way – smac89 Aug 18 '22 at 19:29
  • @Elliptica I've rolled back your edit since it seems to have shifted the question just onto the next problem. With the selected wording, it seemed to have asked for the *purpose* as to why `rstrip` works as per spec, or at least that would be one way to read it. That doesn't match the existing answer and is likely unanswerable to begin with. – MisterMiyagi Aug 18 '22 at 19:40
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The argument of the method rstrip(characters) is a string of characters that will be removed from the right. That means, that the right-most char in the some_sentence string is in the set characters, it will be removed. And that's done until the right-most char is not in the set to be removed.

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=rstrip#str.rstrip

What you want to accomplish is done with .removesuffix()

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