[Tutor] lstrip removes '/' unexpectedly

[Tim Johnson]

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
thanks
Tim
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