pyspark.pandas.Series.str.lstrip¶
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str.lstrip(to_strip: Optional[str] = None) → ps.Series¶ Remove leading characters.
Strip whitespaces (including newlines) or a set of specified characters from each string in the Series/Index from left side. Equivalent to
str.lstrip().- Parameters
- to_stripstr
Specifying the set of characters to be removed. All combinations of this set of characters will be stripped. If None then whitespaces are removed.
- Returns
- Series of object
Examples
>>> s = ps.Series(['1. Ant.', '2. Bee!\t', None]) >>> s 0 1. Ant. 1 2. Bee!\t 2 None dtype: object
>>> s.str.lstrip('12.') 0 Ant. 1 Bee!\t 2 None dtype: object