How to remove the first character of a string in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to remove the first character of a given string in Python.

Removing the first character

To remove the first character of a string, we can use the slice notation [ ] with 1: as an argument in Python.

Here is an example, that removes the first character H from the following string:

str = "How are you"

print(str[1:])

Output:

"ow are you"

Similarly, we can also use the lstrip() method by passing the first character as an argument to it.

str = "How are you"

print(str.lstrip("H")); # "ow are you"

Another example:

name = "oprah"

print(name.lstrip("o")) # "prah"