title: Most Pythonic was to strip all non-alphanumeric leading characters from string
body: <p>For example </p>
  
  <pre><code>!@#123myname --&gt; myname
  !@#yourname!@#123 --&gt; yourname!@#123
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There are plenty of S.O. examples of "most pythonic ways of removing all alphanumeric characters" but if I want to remove only non-alphabet characters leading up to first alphabet character, what would be the best way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>I can do it with a while loop but im looking for a better python solution </p>