Use the lstrip() method

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>>> name = '  Steve  ' 

>>> name

'  Steve  '

>>> name = name.lstrip()

>>> name

'Steve  '

a = "      yo!      "

b = a.strip() # this will remove the white spaces that are leading and trailing

import re

s = '\n \t this is a string   with a lot of whitespace\t'

s = re.sub('\s+', '', s)

'     hello world!    '.strip()

'hello world!'

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'     hello world!    '.lstrip()

'hello world!    '

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'     hello world!    '.rstrip()

'    hello world!'

Use the strip() method

Example

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>>> name = '  Steve  ' 

>>> name

'  Steve  '

>>> name = name.strip()

>>> name

'Steve'

>>> "    xyz     ".rstrip()

'    xyz'

' sss d ssd s'.replace(" ", "")

# output: 'sssdssds' 

import re

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my_string  = " Hello Python "

output = re.sub(r'^\s+|\s+$', '', my_string)

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print(output)

text = "  Example text with whitespace    "

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# Removing leading and trailing whitespace

trimmed_text = text.strip()

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print(trimmed_text)

>>> s.strip()

'Hello  World   From Pankaj \t\n\r\tHi There'

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