Source code for libka.utils.chop

#!/usr/bin/python3
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#   Copyright © 2019 José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfaust@gmail.com>      #
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#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify   #
#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by   #
#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or      #
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"""This module just provides a `simple_abort_handler` function to exit nice"""




def rchop(string, ending):
    """
    Removes the substring `ending` from the right of `string`.
    """
    if string.endswith(ending):
        result = string[:-len(ending)]
    else:
        result = string
    return result




def lchop(string, beginning):
    """
    Removes the substring `beginning` from the left of `string`.
    """
    if string.startswith(beginning):
        result = string[len(beginning):-1]
    else:
        result = string
    return result