Last modified: Feb 15, 2023 By Alexander Williams

Remove first character from string in Python

Let’s say you have a string, and you want to remove the first character from it.
How can you do that?

syntax


print(string[1:]) 

example 1: remove the fist characters from a string


#remove the first character from a string Python

#string
string = 'hello'

#remove the first character from a string
print(string[1:])    

output

ello

As you can see the "h" character has been removed from the string

example 2: remove the two fist characters from a string


#remove the two first characters from a string Python

#string
string = 'hello'

#remove the first character of a string
print(string[2:])    

output

llo

done! "h" and "e" characters has been removed