How to strip trailing digits from a string
<p>I have a variable text whose value is like below,I need strip of trailing digits,is there a python built-in function to do it..if not,please suggest how can this be done in python</p>

<p>e.g. <code>-text=A8980BQDFZDD1701209.3</code> => <code>-A8980BQDFZDD</code></p>
