On Mar 28, 12:55 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote: > What about this: > > def lstrip2(string, chars, ignore_case=True): > if ignore_case: > chars = chars.lower() + chars.upper() > return string.lstrip(chars) > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch Thanks Marc. I think yours looks much better.