How to delete the first line of a text file?

Question

I have been searching online, but have not found any good solution.

Here is my text file:

[54, 95, 45, -97, -51, 84, 0, 32, -55, 14, 50, 54, 68, -3,          


        

Answer 1

I too wanted to read the first line of a file:

# open the file and read the contents
fp = open(file_path_name)
content = fp.readline()                 # read just the first line
print(content)

Worked well for me.

Answer 2

Just a suggestion, cause I faced the same problem with the difference that I didn't want to delete the first raw from the original .txt file just to use the content from the 2nd raw and on.

I use the simple solution of

with open(file) as f:
    content = f.readlines()
    content = content[1:]

This is always the case if you don't want to permanently delete the content of the file.