How to get all string except the first word in Python -

how rid of first word of string? want rid of number , rest whole string.

input text is:

1456208278 hello world start 

what wanted output was:

'hello world start' 

here approach:

if isfile('/directory/text_file'):     open('/directory/test_file', 'r') f:             lines = f.readlines()             try:                 first = str((lines[0].strip().split()))                 final = first.split(none, 1)[1].strip("]")                 print final              except exception e:                 print str(e) 

the output of code was:

'hello', 'world', 'start' 

i not want " ' " every single string.

if split , join, may lose spaces may relevant application. search first space , slice string next character (i think more efficient).

s = '1456208278 hello world start' s[s.index(' ') + 1:] 

edit

your code way complex task: first split line, getting list, convert the list string, means ' , ] in string. have split again , clean stuff. it's overly complex :)

another approach use split , join, said earlier, may lose spaces:

s = '1456208278 hello world start' t1 = s.split() # ['1456208278', 'hello', 'world', 'start'] t2 = s[1:] # ['hello', 'world', 'start'] s2 = ' '.join(t2) 

or more concisely

s2 = ' '.join(s.split()[1:]) 

this approach better if want use comma separate tokens, e.g.

s3 = ', '.join(s.split()[1:]) 

will produce

s3 = 'hello, world, start'