Function zshift

pattern/text/en/inflect_quantify.py:80–88

Returns a (string, count)-tuple, with leading zeros strippped from the string and counted.

(s)

    "zero", "minus", "point", ",", "and"

def zshift(s):
    """ Returns a (string, count)-tuple, with leading zeros strippped from the string and counted.
    """
    s = s.lstrip()
    i = 0
    while s.startswith((ZERO, "0")):
        s = re.sub(r"^(0|%s)\s*" % ZERO, "", s, 1)
        i = i + 1
    return s, i

#print zshift("zero one")  # ("one", 1)
#print zshift("0 0 seven") # ("seven", 2)