Remove n characters from a start of a string

Question

I want to remove the first characters from a string. Is there a function that works like this?

>>> a = \"BarackObama\"
>>> print myfunction(4,a         


        

Answer 1

Yes, just use slices:

 >> a = "BarackObama"
 >> a[4:]
 'ckObama'

Documentation is here http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings