Grab a line's whitespace/indention with Python

Question

Basically, if I have a line of text which starts with indention, what\'s the best way to grab that indention and put it into a variable in Python? For example, if the line i

Answer 1

If you're interested in using regular expressions you can use that. /\s/ usually matches one whitespace character, so /^\s+/ would match the whitespace starting a line.