error in string module documentation?

[Oliver Sakki]

Well lstrip takes leading whitespaces away, so another way to fix it would
be 'item = cmd.lstrip()' ? :o)

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On 19 Apr 2003, Michael Anckaert wrote:

> Hello all,
> In the string module documentation I read the following:
>
>
> lstrip(s[, chars])
>         Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed. If
>         chars is omitted or None, whitespace characters are removed. If
>         given and not None, chars must be a string; the characters in
>         the string will be stripped from the beginning of the string
>         this method is called on.
>
> But I get the following error from my program:
>
>   File "./game.py", line 35, in run_game
>     item = string.lstrip(cmd, "look")
> TypeError: lstrip() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>
> Is there an error in the documentation or is it my error?
>
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