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.

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