I have a couple hundred Word docs that have some number measurements that I need in my code. Naturally, I don't want to copy and paste the measurements into python each time. What I have tried to do is:

```
r = []
with open('NGC1705_rotmod.dat') as fo:
    for rec in fo:
        r.append(rec[0:4])

```

Which returns:

```
['# Di', '# Ra', '# kp', '0.22', '0.66', '1.11', '1.55', '2.00', '2.45', '2.89', '3.34', '3.78', '4.22', '4.66', '5.11', '5.56', '6.00']

```

However, the first three elements (`#Di, #Ra, #kp`) are simply the headers for the data, they aren't part of the data that I need. Is there any way to cut off the first 3 rows?