Question

i am trying to select the elements of a list without the very first element. the following code works but it kinda look ugly to me

[s[i] for i in range(len(s)) if i>0]

is there a better way to write it? thanks

Answer 1

Use the slicing notation:

s[1:]

Alternatively, you can avoid copying the list thus:

itertools.islice(s, 1, None)

The result isn’t a list — it doesn’t support random access, for instance — but you can pass it to anything that accepts an iterator.