How can we strip punctuation at the start of a string using Python?

Question

I want to strip all kinds of punctuation at the start of the string using Python. My list contains strings and some of them starting with some kind of punct

Answer 1

If you want to remove it only from the begining, try this:

    import re
    s='"gets'
    re.sub(r'("|,,)(.*)',r'\2',s)