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13 changes: 6 additions & 7 deletions Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -2577,20 +2577,19 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
Return a copy of the string with trailing characters removed. The *chars*
argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted
or ``None``, the *chars* argument defaults to removing whitespace. The *chars*
argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped::
argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

For example:

.. doctest::

>>> ' spacious '.rstrip()
' spacious'
>>> 'mississippi'.rstrip('ipz')
'mississ'

See :meth:`str.removesuffix` for a method that will remove a single suffix
string rather than all of a set of characters. For example::
See also :meth:`strip` and :meth:`removesuffix`.

>>> 'Monty Python'.rstrip(' Python')
'M'
>>> 'Monty Python'.removesuffix(' Python')
'Monty'

.. method:: str.split(sep=None, maxsplit=-1)

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