best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

[Paul]

Thomas Jollans wrote:

> On 2018-05-20 23:54, Paul wrote:
> > you will find several useful sites where you can test regexes.
>
> What's the benefit of those compared to simply trying out the regex in a
> Python console?
>

Possibly nothing.  But there are obvious benefits compared to trying to
write and test such an expression in one's head, which was the situation
which led me to suggest it.  :)

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