How to remove two chars from the beginning of a line

Question

I'm a complete Python noob. How can I remove two characters from the beginning of each line in a file? I was trying something like this:

#!/Python26/  import re  f = open('M:/file.txt') lines=f.readlines()  i=0; for line in lines:     line = line.strip()          #do something here 

Answer 1

You were off to a good start. Try this in your loop:

for line in lines:     line = line[2:]     # do something here 

The [2:] is called "slice" syntax, it essentially says "give me the part of this sequence which begins at index 2 and continues to the end (since no end point was specified after the colon).