pythonic way to iterate over part of a list

Question

I want to iterate over everything in a list except the first few elements, e.g.:

for line in lines[2:]:
    foo(line)

This is concise, but

Answer 1

def skip_heading( iterable, items ):
    the_iter= iter( iterable ):
    for i, e in enumerate(the_iter):
        if i == items: break
    for e in the_iter:
        yield e

Now you can for i in skip_heading( lines, 2 ): without worrying.