How to remove a path prefix in python?

Question

I wanted to know what is the pythonic function for this :

I want to remove everything before the wa path.

p = path.split(\'/\')
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Answer 1

import re

path = '/book/html/wa/foo/bar/'
m = re.match(r'.*(/wa/[a-z/]+)',path)
print m.group(1)