From 6464978b259747c64d137e3aee500039389f7113 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Jones <14077947+maxrjones@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 17:50:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore: Pre-commit hook for multi-character lstrip/rstrip

---
 .pre-commit-config.yaml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index f86fb3d9c1..5b147fb532 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ repos:
     rev: v1.10.0
     hooks:
       - id: numpydoc-validation
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: ban-lstrip-rstrip
+        name: ban lstrip/rstrip
+        language: pygrep
+        entry: "\\.(lstrip|rstrip)\\([\"'][^\"']{2,}[\"']\\)"
+        types: [python]
+        files: ^(src|tests)/
   - repo: https://github.com/twisted/towncrier
     rev: 25.8.0
     hooks:

From bfbfcec292333c857d7dc571fb04f9e3a42f9ca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Jones <14077947+maxrjones@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 17:53:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Comment

---
 .pre-commit-config.yaml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 5b147fb532..37f41b8222 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ repos:
       - id: ban-lstrip-rstrip
         name: ban lstrip/rstrip
         language: pygrep
+        # Matches .lstrip() or .rstrip() where the string argument is 2+ characters.
         entry: "\\.(lstrip|rstrip)\\([\"'][^\"']{2,}[\"']\\)"
         types: [python]
         files: ^(src|tests)/