modin.pandas.Series.str.lstrip

Series.str.lstrip(to_strip=None)[source]

Remove leading characters.

Strip whitespaces (including newlines) or a set of specified characters from each string in the Series/Index from left side. Replaces any non-strings in Series with NaNs. Equivalent to str.lstrip().

Parameters:

to_strip (str or None, default None) – Specifying the set of characters to be removed. All combinations of this set of characters will be stripped. If None then whitespaces are removed.

Return type:

Series or Index of object

See also

Series.str.strip

Remove leading and trailing characters in Series/Index.

Series.str.lstrip

Remove leading characters in Series/Index.

Series.str.rstrip

Remove trailing characters in Series/Index.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series(['1. Ant.  ', '2. Bee!\n', '3. Cat?\t', np.nan, 10, True])
>>> s  
0    1. Ant.
1    2. Bee!\n
2    3. Cat?\t
3         None
4           10
5         True
dtype: object

>>> s.str.lstrip('123.')  
0    Ant.
1    Bee!\n
2    Cat?\t
3      None
4      None
5      None
dtype: object