lstrip, rstrip and strip remove characters from the left, right and both ends of a string respectively. By default they remove whitespace characters (space, tabs, linebreaks, etc)

Dec 31, 2015 · The lstrip() function doesn't behave in exactly the way you think it might. x.lstrip(argument) removes any of the characters in argument from the left of the string x until it …

37 lstrip is character-based, it removes all characters from the left end that are in that string. To verify this, try this:

May 22, 2019 · The reasons the u gets stripped is not related to \u or unicode. The problem is that the strip functions take a list of characters to strip, regardless of the order they are in (either in the word …

Jun 22, 2021 · Python 3.9 introduces removeprefix and removesuffix methods that do what everyone always thinks lstrip and rstrip do before they realize their mistake. @MarkTolonen thanks for the …

Oct 21, 2021 · Closed 4 years ago. My understanding is that the lstrip(arg) removes characters from the left based on the value of arg. I am executing the following code:

Note, though, that lstrip while remove leading whitespace which may be more that spaces (tabs etc). That's usually what you want. If you want to remove spaces and spaces only, call " bla".lstrip (" ")

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str.lstrip removes all the characters in its argument from the string, starting at the left. Since all the characters in the left prefix "REFPROP-MIX:ME" are in the argument "REFPROP-MIX:", all those …