[virt-tools-list] [libvirt] [PATCH 17/22] apibuild: Simplify strip_lead_star()

[Radostin Stoyanov]

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 at gmail.com>
---
 docs/apibuild.py | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/apibuild.py b/docs/apibuild.py
index 9e73b4d27..b914b1dce 100755
--- a/docs/apibuild.py
+++ b/docs/apibuild.py
@@ -722,15 +722,8 @@ 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):
-- 
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