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bytes.lstrip

bytes — stripping

Return a copy with the given bytes removed from the left; by default strips ASCII whitespace.

Syntax

b.lstrip(...)

The argument is a set of byte values, not a prefix: stripping proceeds byte by byte from the left while each byte belongs to that set, so b'abcabd'.lstrip(b'ab') leaves b'cabd'. Trimming leading zeros bites here — b'0000'.lstrip(b'0') yields an empty b'', not b'0'. To drop one known leading chunk, use removeprefix().

Examples

print(b'  hi'.lstrip())   # → b'hi'
print(b'xxxdata'.lstrip(b'x'))  # → b'data'
print(b'0042'.lstrip(b'0'))  # → b'42'
print(b'abcabd'.lstrip(b'ab'))  # → b'cabd'
print(b'  hi  '.lstrip())  # → b'hi  '

See also

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