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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def lstrip(self, chars=None):
 """ Like str.lstrip, except it returns the Colr instance. """

        return self.__class__(
            self._str_strip('lstrip', chars),
            no_closing=chars and (closing_code in chars),
        )