How might one remove the first x characters from a string? For example, if one had a string lipsum, how would they remove the first 3 characters and get a result of sum?
Removing first x characters from string?
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Use del.
Example:
>>> text = 'lipsum'
>>> l = list(text)
>>> del l[3:]
>>> ''.join(l)
'sum'
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