lstrip( ) FUNCTION

The lstrip( ) Function is used to remove any unwanted character from the left side of the String with Space by default.

x = "   Hello  "
y = x.lstrip()
print(y,"World")

Output :

Hello World

In the above code, we have declared a String ' Hello ' with leading and trailing spaces.

x = " Hello "

Then we have used the 'lstrip( )' function to remove the unwanted spaces from left side only.

y = x.rstrip( )

So, the unwanted spaces are stripped out from the left side of the String.

Now, let us say you want the fill the right blocks with something other than spaces.

x = "*@Hello@ir"
y = x.lstrip('@*')
print(y)

Hello@ir

In the above code, we have declared a String '*@Hello@ir' with some unwanted characters (i.e.'*, @') on the left side.

x = "*@Hello@ir"

So, we have used the 'lstrip( )' function to remove the unwanted characters i.e. '*, @' from the left side only.

y = x.lstrip('@*')

And '@' and '*' are stripped out only from the left side of the String.