str.startswith() not working as I intended

Question

I can\'t see why this won\'t work. I am performing lstrip() on the string being passed to the function, and trying to see if it starts with \"\"\". For some reason, it gets caug

Answer 1

not line_t.startswith('"""') or not line_t.startswith('#')

This expression evaluates to True no matter what string line_t denotes. Do you want 'and' instead of 'or'? Your question isn't clear to me.