diff --git a/anki/importing/csvfile.py b/anki/importing/csvfile.py
index 6a5c5fafb..2c0018621 100644
--- a/anki/importing/csvfile.py
+++ b/anki/importing/csvfile.py
@@ -70,11 +70,8 @@ class TextImporter(NoteImporter):
         self.data = self.fileobj.read()
         if self.data.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF8):
             self.data = self.data[len(codecs.BOM_UTF8):]
-        print "fixme: don't strip leading whitespace"
         def sub(s):
-            return re.sub(
-                "^\#.*", "", re.sub(
-                "^ +", "", s))
+            return re.sub("^\#.*", "", s)
         self.data = [sub(x) for x in self.data.split("\n") if sub(x)]
         if self.data:
             if self.data[0].startswith("tags:"):