On Monday 03 December 2007, Tiger12506 wrote:
> >> ##########################
> >>
> >>>>> s = '/home/test/'
> >>>>> s1 = s.lstrip('/ehmo')
> >>>>> s1
> >>
> >> 'test/'
> >> ##########################
I've been having some problems posting to this list,
so this is also a kind of test:
I just wrote a global lstring
def lstrip(S,chars):
if S.startswith(chars):
return S[len(chars):]
else: return S
It begs for a extension of the string object I guess,
but this (and a corollary rstrip) works for me.
Tim
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