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

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

This if will always be satisfied -- either the line doesn't start with """, or it doesn't start with # (or both). You probably meant to use and where you used or.