Remove special characters if they are at the beginning of a string

Question

Given a string ___abc_de

I want to remove _ character if it is at the beginning of the string.

So the above string should be abc_de.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42026036/trim-specific-leading-and-trailing-characters-from-a-string — Chris_Rands, Jun 19 '18 at 08:55

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '18 at 08:53

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Use str.lstrip():

In [28]: s = "___abc_de"

In [29]: s.lstrip('_')
Out[29]: 'abc_de'

answered Jun 19 '18 at 08:53

Mazdak

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