Removing first x characters from string?

Question

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 resul

Answer 1

Another way (depending on your actual needs): If you want to pop the first n characters and save both the popped characters and the modified string:

s = 'lipsum'
n = 3
a, s = s[:n], s[n:]
print(a)
# lip
print(s)
# sum

Answer 2

>>> text = 'lipsum'
>>> text[3:]
'sum'

See the official documentation on strings for more information and this SO answer for a concise summary of the notation.

Answer 3

Example to show last 3 digits of account number.

x = '1234567890'   
x.replace(x[:7], '')

o/p: '890'

Answer 4

>>> x = 'lipsum'
>>> x.replace(x[:3], '')
'sum'

Answer 5

Use del.

Example:

>>> text = 'lipsum'
>>> l = list(text)
>>> del l[3:]
>>> ''.join(l)
'sum'