Remove the first word in a Python string?

Question

What\'s the quickest/cleanest way to remove the first word of a string? I know I can use split and then iterate on the array to get my string. But I\'m pretty s

Answer 1

The other answer will raise an exception if your string only has one word, which I presume is not what you want.

One way to do this instead is to use the str.partition function.

>>> s = "foo bar baz"
>>> first, _, rest = s.partition(" ")
>>> rest or first
'bar baz'

>>> s = "foo"
>>> first, _, rest = s.partition(" ")
>>> rest or first
'foo'