Most Pythonic was to strip all non-alphanumeric leading characters from string

Question

For example

!@#123myname --> myname
!@#yourname!@#123 --> yourname!@#123

There are plenty of S.O. examples of \"most pythonic ways of re

Answer 1

If you want to remove leading non-alpha/numeric values:

while not s[0].isalnum(): s = s[1:]

If you want to remove only leading non-alphabet characters:

while not s[0].isalpha(): s = s[1:]

Sample:

s = '!@#yourname!@#'
while not s[0].isalpha(): s = s[1:]
print(s)

Output:

yourname!@#