title: How to remove symbols from both sides of a string?
body: <p>How would I go about removing characters from the left side of a Python string? Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string='@!#word '
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know I can use <code>strip('@!# ')</code> to get</p>
  
  <pre><code>string='word'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I need a general code to remove all the characters that are not alphabet</p>