In this tutorial, we will look at how to remove the first n characters from a string in Python with the help of some examples.
How to remove the first n characters?

Python strings are immutable which means that they cannot be modified. However, you can create a copy of the string with the first n characters removed and assign it to the original string variable.
To remove the first n characters from a string, slice the string from the nth index to the end of the string. Note that characters in a string are indexed starting from zero, so slicing the string from the nth index to the end would remove the first n characters of the string. The following is the syntax –
# remove first n characters from a string s = s[n:]
It returns a copy of the original string with the first n characters removed.
Let’s look at some examples -.
Remove the first 2 characters from a string
In this case n = 2, hence we slice the string from index 2 to the end of the string.
# create a string s = "Hufflepuff" # remove first 2 characcters print(s[2:])
Output:
fflepuff
You can see that the resulting string does not have the first two characters from the original string.
Remove the first 3 characters from a string
We can similarly use the above syntax to remove the first three characters from a string.
# create a string s = "Hufflepuff" # remove first 3 characcters print(s[3:])
Output:
flepuff
The resulting string has the first three characters removed.
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