how to avoid leading white spaces

[Roy Smith]

On 06/06/2011 08:33 AM, rusi wrote:
>> Evidently for syntactic, implementation and cultural reasons, Perl
>> programmers are likely to get (and then overuse) regexes faster than
>> python programmers.

"rurpy at yahoo.com" <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't see how the different Perl and Python cultures themselves 
> would make learning regexes harder for Python programmers.

Oh, that part's obvious.  People don't learn things in a vacuum.  They 
read about something, try it, fail, and ask for help.  If, in one 
community, the response they get is, "I see what's wrong with your 
regex, you need to ...", and in another they get, "You shouldn't be 
using a regex there, you should use this string method instead...", it 
should not be a surprise that it's easier to learn about regexes in the 
first community.