On Monday, September 2, 2013 at 11:53:32 AM UTC-5, MRAB wrote: > On 02/09/2013 17:12, Chris "Kwpolska" Warrick wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion [at] > > gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> I have a multi-line string and I need to remove the very first line from > >> it. How can I do that? I looked at StringIO but I can't seem to figure > >> out how to properly use it to remove the first line. Basically, I want > >> to toss the first line but keep everything else. Can anyone put me on > >> the right path? I know it is probably easy but I'm still learning Python > >> and don't have all the string functions down yet. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Anthony > >> -- > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > Use split() and join() methods of strings, along with slicing. Like this: > > > > fullstring = """foo > > bar > > baz""" > > > > sansfirstline = '\n'.join(fullstring.split('\n')[1:]) > > > > The last line does this: > > 1. fullstring.split('\n') turns it into a list of ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] > > 2. the [1:] slice removes the first element, making it ['bar', 'baz'] > > 3. Finally, '\n'.join() turns the list into a string separated by > > newlines ("""bar > > baz""") > > > Another way is to use .partition: > > >>> fullstring = """foo\nbar\nbaz""" > >>> fullstring.partition("\n")[2] > 'bar\nbaz'
I realize this is very old, but thanks for posting this reply. I like this answer the best. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
