The patch against latest SVN adds "strip" encoder that removes leading prefix from C names. Useful for wrapping C libraries that usually have all their functions prefixed. Prefixed function calls look ugly when wrapped into Python module with the same name, and hence this encoder.
strip prefix encoder
Thanks, committed for swig-1.3.37.
Note that a general regular expression library would also provide the same functionality, but this patch provides a very common use case that is best met now before/if a reg exp library is added (of which I know of none that is forthcoming).