Python str.strip() with regex filtering unexpected characters

Question

I\'m running into an issue that I hope is simple, however I\'ve run into a wall trying to figure it out. I\'m attempting to strip the DateTime timestamp from the beginning

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, you are using strip incorrectly. Instead, since you already have matching working, slice off the number of characters from the start of the string.

result = line[:len(a.group())]
print(result)
# prints ' testc'