[Tutor] how to remove first '/'

[vince spicer]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM, <davidwilson at safe-mail.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to strip the first '/' from the following:
>
> '/path/to/file'
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Dave
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there are many ways to do this, heres a few:

x = "/path/to/file"

print x.partition("/")[-1]
print x[1:]
print "/".join(x.split("/")[1:])
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