code: def leading_empty_lines(lines):
      """Remove leading empty lines
  
      If the leading lines are empty or contain only whitespace, they will be
      removed.
      """
      if not lines:
          return lines
      for i, line in enumerate(lines):
          if line and not line.isspace():
              return lines[i:]
      return lines
  
imports: import ast
  from codeop import CommandCompiler, Compile
  import re
  import sys
  import tokenize
  from typing import List, Tuple, Optional, Any
  import warnings
  from IPython.utils import tokenutil
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: leading_empty_lines(lines) and returns: lines, lines, lines