Python 3.9 added the string methods removesuffix and removeprefix. When I first saw this I wondered why, since the go-to solution for this is strip, lstrip and rstrip.
On diving into the documentation, I was surprised to find that strip, lstrip and rstrip treat the input chars as a set of characters to remove not a substring. An example will better explain this. Take for example you have the string test_some_stuff and you want to remove the prefix. The obvious way would be to go for lstrip.
s = 'test_some_stuff'.lstrip('test_')
The expected output is some_stuff. The actual output is ome_stuff. You see the *strip methods will check the string for any of the set of characters provided and remove those from the string until a non-matching character. In the example above the s is some was also removed.
The solution is to use removeprefix and/or removesuffix.
s = 'test_some_stuff'.removeprefix('test_')
Output: some_stuff
If you desire to dig into this more have a look at the PEP that led to these two methods getting added.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0616/
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