John Fouhy wrote:
> On 12/01/07, Christopher Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> At first I used strip(), which was a mistake because
>> it removed all the zeroes.
>
> Are you sure? If you used .replace('0', '') it would remove all the
> zeros. But this is what strip is for.
>
>>>> lst = ['0001.ext', '0230.ext', '0041.ext', '0050.ext']
>>>> [s.lstrip('0') for s in lst]
> ['1.ext', '230.ext', '41.ext', '50.ext']
I just want to highlight that your code uses lstrip(), not strip().
lstrip() is perfect for this problem, it removes leading characters
only, in this case leading 0s.
Kent
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