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In Python: How do I write a function that would remove "x" number of characters from the beginning of a string?
For instance if my string was "gorilla" and I want to be able remove two letters it would then return "rilla".
OR if my string was "table" and I wanted to remove the first three letters it would return "le".
Please help and thank you everyone!

You can use this syntax called slices
s = 'gorilla'
s[2:]
will return
'rilla'
see also Explain Python's slice notation

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