[libvirt] [PATCHv2 18/25] apibuild: Simplify strip_lead_star()

The method strip_lead_star() removes a single leading asterisk character from a string by ignoring leading whitespace, otherwise it returns the original string. This could be achieved with a single if-statement followed by replace. Signed-off-by: Radostin Stoyanov <rstoyanov1(a)gmail.com&gt; --- docs/apibuild.py | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/apibuild.py b/docs/apibuild.py index 90d944ccf..d5707d5d1 100755 --- a/docs/apibuild.py +++ b/docs/apibuild.py @@ -721,15 +721,8 @@ class CParser: self.index.info = res def strip_lead_star(self, line): - l = len(line) - i = 0 - while i < l: - if line[i] == ' ' or line[i] == '\t': - i += 1 - elif line[i] == '*': - return line[:i] + line[i + 1:] - else: - return line + if line.lstrip().startswith('*'): + line = line.replace('*', '', 1) return line def cleanupComment(self): -- 2.14.3