[issue25979] String functions lstrip are not working properly when you have escape sequence

[Ethan Furman]

Ethan Furman added the comment:

lstrip() works by removing any of the characters in its argument, in any order; for example:

'catchy'.lstrip('cat')
# 'hy'

'actchy'.lstrip('tac')
# 'hy'

is stripping, from the left, all 'c's and all 'a's and all 't's -- not just the first three, and order does not matter.

The docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=lstrip#str.lstrip

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nosy: +ethan.furman
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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