I was using the lstrip to trim the left occurance of a string, and it didnt seem to work for some cases. but when i investigated there does seem to be an issue with some combination of strings here is one case p1 = "abcd" p2 = 'def' # $abc sym = '_' str1 = p1 + sym + p2 str1 = str1.lstrip(p1+sym) print str1 # this prints ef instead of def
can someone explain why this is happening ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
