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

a = 'BarackObama'
a[4:]  # ckObama
b = 'The world is mine'
b[6:]  # rld is mine