El jue., 27 jun. 2019 a las 11:51, <dan@bauman.space> escribió:

> excellent and extraordinarily obvious
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> a bit unfortunate that old docs for a module that doesn't seem to exist in
> py3 with less clear but still correct words is still the top google result
> for python string strip.
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.lstrip
>
>  string.lstrip(s[, chars])¶
>
>     Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed. If chars
> is omitted or None, whitespace characters are removed. If given and not
> None, chars must be a string; the characters in the string will be stripped
> from the beginning of the string this method is called on.
>
That function actually also behaves like str.lstrip() does in Python 3:

>>> string.lstrip('abcd', 'ba')
'cd'


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