title: Regex matching except whitespace in Python
body: <p>I am looking to match on a white space followed by anything except whitespace [i.e. letters, punctuation] at the start of a line  in Python. For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code> ` a`  = True
   ` .` = True
   `  a`  = False    [double whitespace]
   `ab` = False      [no whitespace]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The rule <code>re.match(" \w")</code> works except with punctuation - how do i include that?</p>