How to delete the first line of a text file?

Question

I have been searching online, but have not found any good solution.

Here is my text file:

[54, 95, 45, -97, -51, 84, 0, 32, -55, 14, 50, 54, 68, -3,          


        

Answer 1

Safer to use one open for read & write, if you want to use the file from another thread/process:

def pop(self, file):
    with open(file, 'r+') as f: # open file in read / write mode
        firstLine = f.readline() # read the first line and throw it out
        data = f.read() # read the rest
        f.seek(0) # set the cursor to the top of the file
        f.write(data) # write the data back
        f.truncate() # set the file size to the current size
        return firstLine

fifo = pop('filename.txt')