[issue39880] string.lstrip() with leading '3's

Change by Steven D'Aprano : -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue39880] string.lstrip() with leading '3's

László Kiss Kollár added the comment: The argument in lstrip() is a set of characters which are stripped from the string and not a full substring. As the documentation states: "The chars argument is not a prefix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped" See

[issue39880] string.lstrip() with leading '3's

New submission from Clayton Bingham : Code to reproduce the behavior: ``` string = 'h.pt3dadd(.994527806812,7310.741605031661,-152.492,0.2815384615384615,sec=sectionList[1396])\n' print(string.lstrip('h.pt3dadd(').split(',')) ``` The lstrip method removed 'h.pt3dadd(' but also removes