[Python-Dev] Re: strip behavior provides inconsistent results with certain strings

excellent and extraordinarily obvious Thanks for the pointer. a bit unfortunate that old docs for a module that doesn't seem to exist in py3 with less clear but still correct words is still the top google result for python string strip. https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.lstrip string.lstrip(s[, chars])¶ Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed. If chars is omitted or None, whitespace characters are removed. If given and not None, chars must be a string; the characters in the string will be stripped from the beginning of the string this method is called on.