[Tutor] how to remove first '/'

[Brett Wilkins]

I would say the best way would be to use lstrip...
path='/path/to/file'
stripped_path = path.lstrip('/')

Cheers
--Brett

> Hello,
> I want to strip the first '/' from the following:
>
> '/path/to/file'
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Dave
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