title: How to remove special characters from the beginning of a string in Python
body: <p>I am getting my data from XML which may some time contain special Character at beginning like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>'This is a sample title  or %&amp;*I don't know if this is the text</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I tried with :
  <code>title[0].isstring() or title[0].isdigit()</code> and then remove the character.  But if there are more than one special character at the beginning, then how do I remove it? Do I need a for loop?</p>