How to strip punctionation only if it's the last character

Question

I know I can use

.translate(None, string.punctuation)

to strip punctuation from a string. However, I'm wondering if there's a way to strip punctuation only if it it's the final character.

For example:

However, only strip the final punctuation.

->

However, only strip the final punctuation

and

This is sentence one. This is sentence two!

->

This is sentence one. This is sentence two

and

This sentence has three exclamation marks!!!

->

This sentence has three exclamation marks

I know I could write a while loop to do this but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant/efficient way.

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Answer 1

You could simply use rstrip:

str.rstrip([chars])

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:

>>> import string

>>> s = 'This sentence has three exclamation marks!!!'
>>> s.rstrip(string.punctuation)
'This sentence has three exclamation marks'

>>> s = 'This is sentence one. This is sentence two!'
>>> s.rstrip(string.punctuation)
'This is sentence one. This is sentence two'

>>> s = 'However, only strip the final punctuation.'
>>> s.rstrip(string.punctuation)
'However, only strip the final punctuation'

How to strip punctionation only if it's the last character

`str.rstrip([chars])`

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