30-seconds-of-code/snippets/drop.md

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title	tags	expertise	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Drop list elements from the left	list	beginner	2020-03-10T21:59:41+02:00	2020-11-02T19:27:53+02:00

Returns a list with n elements removed from the left.

• Use slice notation to remove the specified number of elements from the left.
• Omit the last argument, n, to use a default value of 1.

def drop(a, n = 1):
  return a[n:]

drop([1, 2, 3]) # [2, 3]
drop([1, 2, 3], 2) # [3]
drop([1, 2, 3], 42) # []