Explicit stripping strategies for leading and trailing whitespace

[grahamcracker1234]

Would allowing for specifying the strip strategy for each end of the input be useful? We could allow for the following:

StripOption = Literal["smart", "all", "none"]

def dedent(  # pyright: ignore[reportUnreachable]
    string: Template | LiteralString,
    /,
    *,
    align: bool | Missing = MISSING,
    strip: StripOption | tuple[StripOption, StripOption] | Missing = MISSING,
) -> str: ...

This would allow a user to specify a different strategy such as ["smart", "all"] for applying the smart strategy to the beginning of the string, and the all strategy to the end.

It's unclear how actually useful this is or if user's would even use it.