Remove the first character of a string

Question

I would like to remove the first character of a string.

For example, my string starts with a : and I want to remove that only. There are several occurre

Answer 1

Depending on the structure of the string, you can use lstrip:

str = str.lstrip(':')

But this would remove all colons at the beginning, i.e. if you have ::foo, the result would be foo. But this function is helpful if you also have strings that do not start with a colon and you don't want to remove the first character then.