Name

lstrip

Synopsis

                     s.lstrip(x=None)

Returns a copy of s with leading whitespace, if any, removed. Since Python 2.2.2, you can optionally pass a string x as an argument, in which case lstrip removes characters found in x rather than removing whitespace.

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