string.lstrip() - string

             
The method lstrip() returns a copy of the string in which all chars have been stripped from the beginning of the string (default whitespace characters).


chars -- You can supply what chars have to be trimmed.

Syntax

str.lstrip([chars])

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "     this is string example....wow!!!     ";
print str.lstrip()
str = "88888888this is string example....wow!!!8888888";
print str.lstrip('8')

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


this is string example....wow!!!
this is string example....wow!!!8888888

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