On 11/21/2010 10:12 PM, Maxim Mercury wrote: > I was using the lstrip to trim the left occurance of a string, and it > didnt seem to work for some cases. but when i investigated there does > seem to be an issue with some combination of strings > here is one case > p1 = "abcd" > p2 = 'def' # $abc > sym = '_' > str1 = p1 + sym + p2 > str1 = str1.lstrip(p1+sym) > print str1 # this prints ef instead of > def > > can someone explain why this is happening ?
It's happening because the argument specifies a set of characters, not a string. So the "d" of "def" is removed because there's a "d" in "abcd_". If you want to remove a string, try testing is with its .startswith() method and them removing the right number of characters. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
