Newbie: Check first two non-whitespace characters

[Cory Madden]

I would personally use re here.

test_string = '  [{blah blah blah'
matches = re.findall(r'[^\s]', t)
result = ''.join(matches)[:2]
>> '[{'

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:18 AM,  <otaksoftspamtrap at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to check a string over which I have no control for the first 2 non-white space characters (which should be '[{').
>
> The string would ideally be: '[{...' but could also be something like
> '  [  {  ....'.
>
> Best to use re and how? Something else?
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