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

Just use str.lstrip.

It takes a string containing the characters to remove from the left side of the string, and will remove those characters regardless of the order in which they appear. For example:

s = "!@#yourname!@#"
print s.lstrip('@!#') # yourname!@#