How to remove two chars from the beginning of a line
Question: I'm a complete Python noob. How can I remove two characters from the beginning
of each line in a file? I was trying something like this:

    
    
    #!/Python26/
    
    import re
    
    f = open('M:/file.txt')
    lines=f.readlines()
    
    i=0;
    for line in lines:
        line = line.strip()     
        #do something here
    


Answer: You were off to a good start. Try this in your loop:

    
    
    for line in lines:
        line = line[2:]
        # do something here
    

The [2:] is called
"[slice](http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings)" syntax,
it essentially says "give me the part of this sequence which begins at index 2
and continues to the end (since no end point was specified after the colon).

