Tim Johnson wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm seeing some strange behavior with lstrip operating
> on string representations of *nix-style file paths
> Example:
>>>> s = '/home/test/'
>>>> s1 = s.lstrip('/home')
>>>> s1
> 'test/' ## '/test/' was expected! '/' was unexpectedly removed
> Any comments or corrective measures are welcome
I usually do something like
if s.startswith('/home'):
s = s[5:]
or
s = s[len('/home'):]
Kent
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