Maintaining leading zeros with the lstrip string function?

[Randy Kreuziger]

I need just the file name from a string containing the path to a file.  The name of the file starts with zeros.  This is problematic because the  lstrip function strips them leaving this as the result:
6128.jpg
 
 
How do I strip the path without losing the leading zeros in the file name?
 
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import sys, os, win32com.client, string

teststring = 'C:\shoreline\dvd\prep area\800x\\006128.jpg'
print string.lstrip(teststring, 'C:\shoreline\dvd\prep area\800x\\')

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