How to cut initial part of a string in Python?

Question

How do I strip character 'A' from the beginning of a string if the string starts with 'A'?

"AsomethingAsomething" output should be "somethingAsomething"
"somethingAsomething" output should be "somethingAsomething"

(Using Python 3.x)

Have a look at [lstrip](https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.lstrip) -> `'AsomethingAsomethingAsomething'.lstrip('A')` — Simon Fraser, Mar 30 '16 at 10:48
Possible duplicate of [Is there a way to substring a string in Python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/663171/is-there-a-way-to-substring-a-string-in-python) — EluciusFTW, Mar 30 '16 at 11:03

gorros · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-30T11:01:59.120

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Try this:

s = "AsomethingAsomethingAsomething"

~~s[s.find('A')+1:]~~

s.lstrip('A')

edited Mar 30 '16 at 11:01

answered Mar 30 '16 at 10:49

gorros

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If the string doesn't start with an 'A' this will have the wrong output. – DeepSpace Mar 30 '16 at 10:53
@DeepSpace Yes, you are right. I read question in rush. – gorros Mar 30 '16 at 10:58

DeepSpace · Answer 2 · 2016-03-30T10:56:06.620

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Combine some logic and str methods and slice:

if some_string.startswith('A'):
    some_string = some_string[1:]

Or even better, just use some_string = some_string.lstrip('A') as proposed in the comments.

edited Mar 30 '16 at 10:56

answered Mar 30 '16 at 10:51

DeepSpace

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 10 '16 at 17:08

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with lstrip

string = "AsomethingAsomethingAsomething"
string.lstrip('A')

edited Nov 10 '16 at 17:08

Akshay Krishnan R

answered Mar 30 '16 at 11:51

Adarsh Dinesh

3 Answers3