bizarre behavior using .lstrip

[Pete Jereb]

Thanks to all for the clarification.  I was under the impression that
lstrip would remove a string I specified, not any character in the
string until a character is no longer found.  I like the

s.lstrip('chg').lstrip

solution.

This is my first Python program, and between the messages on this
group and "Python in a Nutshell" I've been able to solve all the
problems I've encountered thus far.  Hopefully I'll be able to
contribute to this group in a little bit!  Pete.