why is this recursion not working to eliminate all spaces before the first word in a string

Asked May 13 '21 at 07:18

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I am trying to make a function to delete all the unwanted space before the very first word in a string:

def spacefirst(sentence):
   for t in range(len(sentence)):
      if t == 0 and sentence[t] == ' ':
          sentence = sentence[t+1 :]
      else:
          sentence = ''.join(sentence) 
          return sentence
      spacefirst(sentence)

Why that recursion is not working?

edited May 13 '21 at 16:43

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asked May 13 '21 at 07:18

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Please add input and the desired output for better understanding. – KnowledgeGainer May 13 '21 at 08:36
You aren't returning the newly trimmed value. `sentence` is not modified in place, because `str` values are immutable. – chepner May 13 '21 at 16:49

why is this recursion not working to eliminate all spaces before the first word in a string

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