Str.dedent vs str.removeindent

[brettcannon]

@methane

@pf_moore

Personally I don’t think there should be a bytes variant. textwrap doesn’t handle bytes, and no-one has added that support in all the time it’s been around, so why add a bytes variant now?

Because other string methods have bytes versions.

But that’s mostly due to either the 2 → 3 transition or because it made sense from the perspective of binary protocols one might work with. I can’t think of any binary protocol where you might want to strip out whitespace. Plus what’s “whitespace” is fancier if you take full Unicode into consideration compared to bytes and saying binary “whitespace” is ord(" ").